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Entered  according  to  the  Act  of  Congress,  In  the  year  18S7,  by 

WINTHEOP  SARGENT, 

In  the  Office  of  the  Clerk  of  the  District  Court  of  ihe  United  States  in  and  for  the 

Eastern  District  of  the  State  of  Penngylvania. 


COLLIKB,  PRIHIER. 


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From  a  large  collection  of  Loyalist  Poetiy  of  the  Ame- 
rican Bevolation,  belonging  to  J.  Francis  Fisher  and  to 
Wiathrop  Sargent,  of  Philadelphia,  this  selection  has  been 
edited.  Much  of  it  has  heretofore  existed  but  in  mann- 
script ;  and  such  pieces  as  are  in  print  are  now  hardly  to  be 
found  beyond  the  confines  of  two  or  three  libraries.  For 
this  reason  they  are  printed ;  and  because  they  are  the  pro- 
ductions of  a  very  important  party,  concerning  whose  con- 
duct and  motives  very  little  is  now  known  save  by  the  report 
of  its  foes  and  subjugators.  Though  the  editor's  sympa- 
thies of  birth  and  eduction  are  with  these  last,  he  can  see 
no  good  reason  why,  at  this  day  and  in  this  manner,  the 
scanty  records  of  tory  feeling  should  not  at  least  be  rescued 
from  oblivion.    As  political  poems,  they  are  vigorous  and 


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entertaining.  Their  tone  betrays  indeed  the  intemperance 
of  men  writing,  as  Tacitns  says,  recentibus  odiis;  and  it 
often  presents  an  extreme  contrast  to  that  system  of  eulo- 
gizing all  the  abstract  virtnes  under  one  proper  name 
which  is  the  frequent  and  fatal  vice  of  American  biography. 
But  contemporaneous  invective,  while  it  rarely  weighs 
unduly  with  posterity,  is  still  worthy  of  consideration  when 
it  comes  as  the  expression  of  public,  rather  than  private 
hate ;  provided  that  a  due  allowance  is  always  made  for  the 
effect  of  party  spirit,  on  even  the  clearest  view.  A  coin 
seen  through  water  does  not  appear  more  distorted  from 
reality,  than  a  character  examined  through  this  medium. 
It  is,  therefore,  mere  pedantry  and  ignorance,  as  we  are 
told  by  one  of  the  sages  of  history,  to  expect,  from  minds 
inflamed  by  the  passions  of  civil  war,  the  temperate  judg- 
ment and  the  measured  words  of  order  and  tranquillity. 
It  is  in  this  light  that  this  volume  should  be  viewed.  The 
persons  assailed  in  it,  like  their  assailants,  have  passed 
away :  even  of  those  to  whom  their  features  were  familiar, 
but  few  remain.  The  sting  of  personality  is  therefore 
avoided ;  and  while  the  fame  of  the  really  good  and  worthy, 
among  the  fathers  of  our  state,  is  written  in  characters  too 


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radiant  to  be  dimmed  by  the  breath  of  a  churchyard  vapor, 
it  is  hoped  and  believed  that  their  descendants  will  not  take 
it  amiss  that  the  chiefs  of  the  whigs  were  disliked  by  the 
tories.  To  be  slandered — if  slandered  indeed  they  all  be — 
in  the  same  breath  with  Washington  and  Bishop  White,  is 
surely  no  unbearable  misfortune. 

As  these  pieces  were  written  in  the  days  when  a  spade 
was  called  a  spade,  they  may  reasonably  be  expected  to 
contain  more  than  one  '  strong,  oldfashioned  English  word, 
familiar  to  all  who  read  their  Bibles.'  "If  this  be  a  taint 
which  requires  expurgation,"  says  Macaulay,  "it  would  be 
advisable  to  begin  by  expurgating  the  morning  and  evening 
lessons."  But  though  the  editor  has  not  ventured  to 
exchange  his  author's  language  for  a  more  gentle  phrase, 
he  has  sometimes  substituted  a  dash  in  its  stead.  Thus, 
while  any  one  familiar  with  the  omitted  words  will  easily 
supply  the  hiatus,  such  readers  as  are  happily  ignorant 
of  the  obnoxious  syllables  may  remain  in  unmolested 
innocence. 

In  his  notes,  the  editor's  aim  has  been  merely  to  illus- 
trate and  help  along  the  author's  meaning,  by  putting  the 
reader  in  possession  of  circumstances  well  known  at  the 

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time,  but  to-day  forgotten  or  obscured :  seeking  neither  to 
confute  the  text,  nor  to  vindicate  it.  Where  a  whig  is 
inveighed  against,  it  has  seemed  proper  to  present  some 
record  of  the  contemporaneous  ideas  more  or  less  current 
respecting  him ;  and  it  is  generally  shown  that  the  prejn* 
dices  against  him  were  not  exclusively  possessed  by  tory 
hearts.  In  this,  the  editor  insinuates  no  opinion  of  his 
own:  but  in  dealing  with  an  enemy,  not  only  dead,  but 
dead  in  exile  and  in  defeat,  candor  prescribes  the  fullest 
measure  of  generous  treatment.  In  point  of  fact,  there  is 
now  no  probability  that  the  whole  record  of  the  revolution 
will  ever  be  displayed.  In  America,  we  have  heard  but 
one  version  of  the  tale.  The  heat  of  the  contest  and  its 
angry  passions  are  indeed  gone,  and  our  opponents  might 
with  safety  now  proclaim  their  motives  and  their  deeds :  but 
this,  it  would  seem,  has  become  impossible.  It  is  said  that 
the  English  government  once  thought  of  setting  forth  its 
own  story,  and  that  Robert  Southey  was  selected  to  pre- 
pare it  for  the  public ;  but  that,  for  one  reason  or  another, 
the  idea  was  dropped,  never  probably  to  be  revived.  The 
great  change  in  inter-national  feeling  since  that  day  has 
made  such  a  semi-ofScial  step  no  longer  advisable :  and  the 


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fact  that  the  tories,  whose  numbers  and  circumstances 
would  have  rendered  their  testimony  indispensable,  have 
died,  and  made  no  sign,  in  itself  offers  an  almost  insoper- 
able  obstacle. 

But  after  all,  for  a  mere  literary  curiosity,  without  pre- 
tension to  any  historical  dignity,  such  as  is  this  volume,  no 
long  apology  is  needed.  The  interest  excited  in  a  limited 
circle  by  its  preparation  has  been  a  sufficient  encourage- 
ment  for  its  appearance.  The  delay  in  its  coming  forth, 
and  the  change  of  type,  are  to  be  regretted.  Whether  its 
reception  will  justify  the  production  of  a  further  compila- 
tion is  not  a  matter  for  the  editor  to  decide.  A  trifle  of 
this  nature  has  a  value  so  transient  and  so  arbitrary,  as  to 
leave  it  only  in  his  power  to  apply  to  it,  by  way  of  com- 
mendation to  the  reader,  the  words  of  honest  Touchstone 
in  the  play : 


A  poor  thing,  but  mine  own,  Sir. 


Philadelphia,  November  2Uh,  1857. 


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TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


PAQI 

jlBm  Ambricah  TiMia  :  Part  First 1 

Thr  American  Tihis  :  Part  Second    .        .        .        .        .        .18 

Tns  Ambrican  Timbb  :  Part  Third 24 

Epigram  on  a  lath  Excrangb S7 

Thb  Word  or  Conoress 38 

Epigram  on  tbb  Boston  Poor 65 

Tbb  TTnio 60 

Thanks  upon  Thanks 67 

A  Familiar  Epistle  from  America  .        .        .68 

Skinner's  Welcome 61 

Liberty's  Choice  ;  or,  the  Rival  Suitors          ....  82 

Epigram  on  a  Continental  Bell (SO 

The  Congress 70 

To  Datid  Rittenhouse 76 

O.y  THE  Snake  at  the  Head  of  American  Newspapers       .        .  76 

America 77 


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PAQF. 

Epioram  on  Himself,  bt  Qen.  Chahlbs  Lkk        ....  79 

The  British  LiaHT-lNFANTRV 80 

Epigrah  on  Sir  William  Howe 81 

A  Medlet  for  the  Lioht-Infantrt 82 

Epioram  on  the  Capture  of  General  Lee 85 

Stanzas  by  an  Exile  from  America 86 

An  Irregular  Ode  to  Peace 91 

The  American  Vicab  of  Brat 94 

Extempore  Verses 98 

The  Old  Year  and  the  New  ;  a  Prophect 99 

The  Sacrifice 102 

Lines  to  the  Memory  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Mungo  Campbell  105 

Verses  written  in  Captivity 107 

Epigram  on  General  Lincoln 108 

Mary  Cat;  or,  Miss  in  her  Teens 109 

A  Prayer  for  the  Congress 117 

A  Pastoral  Elegy 119 

The  Tenth  Regiment's  Voyage  to  Quebec         ....  121 

Hot  Stuff 125 

Epigram  on  Gen.  Charles  Lee 127 

The  Factious  Dbmagooub 129 

The  Volunteers  of  Ireland 132 

A  Pasquinade 134 

Hymn  for  the  Loyal  Americans 137 

Ode  for  the  Birthday  of  the  Prince  of  Wales                .        .  140 


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PAQB 

Gbnehai,  Watehbury's  Farewell 142 

Watbrbcby'8  Epitaph I44 

The  Battle  of  Cane  Creek 145 

On  Holt's  Emblematical  Twistipication 347 

Notes j4g 

I^'Diix 206 

Distribution  op  Copies 2I6 


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THE   AMERICAN  TIMES. 

^      IN  THREE  PARTS. 


Faoit  indignatio  versam. — Jutenal. 


By   CAMILLO    QTJERNO. 


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CHAPLAUr  TO  THE  CONGRESS.' 


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PART    I. 


When  Faction,  pois'nous  as  the  scorpion's  sting, 
Infects  the  people  and  insalts  the  King ; 
When  foal  Sedition  slculks  no  more  conceal'd, 
Bat  grasps  the  sword  and  rashes  to  the  field ; 
When  Justice,  Law,  and  Trath  are  in  disgrace, 
And  Treason,  Fraud,  and  Murder  fill  their  place; 
Smarting  beneath  accumulated  woes. 
Shall  we  not  dare  the  tyrants  to  expose? 
We  will,  we  must — tho'  mighty  Laurens  frown. 
Or  Hancock  with  his  rabble  hunt  us  down;* 
Champions  of  virtue,  we'll  alike  disdain 
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The  guards  of  Washington,  the  lies  of  Payne ; 

And  greatly  bear,  without  one  anxious  throb, 

The  wrath  of  Congress,  or  its  lords  the  mob. 

Bad  are  the  Times,  almost  too  bad  to  paint; 

The  whole  head  sickens,  the  whole  heart  is  faint; 

The  State  is  rotten,  rotten  to  the  core, 

'Tis  all  one  bruize,  one  putrefying  sore. 

Here  Anarchy  before  the  gaping  crowd 

Proclaims  the  people's  majesty  aloud ; 

There  Folly  runs  with  eagerness  about, 

And  prompts  the  cheated  populace  to  shout ; 

Here  paper-dollars  meagre  Famine  holds, 

There  votes  of  Congress  Tyranny  unfolds ; 

With  doctrines  strange  in  matter  and  in  dress. 

Here  sounds  the  pulpit,  and  there  groans  the  press ; 

Confusion  blows  her  trump — and  far  and  wide 

The  noise  is  heard — the  plough  is  thrown  aside ; 

The  awl,  the  needle,  and  the  shuttle  drops ; 

Tools  change  to  swords,  and  camps  succeed  to  shops ; 

The  doctor's  glister-pipe,  the  lawyer's  quill, 

Transform'd  to  guns,  retain  the  power  to  kill ; 

From  garrets,  cellars,  rushing  thro'  the  street, 

The  new-born  statesmen  in  committee  meet ; 

Legions  of  senators  infest  the  land, 

And  mushroom  generals  thick  as  mushrooms  stand.' 


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Ye  western  climes,  where  youthful  plenty  smiPd, 
Ye  plains  just  rescued  from  the  dreary  wild, 
Ye  cities  just  emerging  into  fame, 
Ye  minds  new  ting'd  with  learning's  sacred  flame, 
Ye  people  wondering  at  your  swift  increase. 
Sons  of  united  liberty  and  peace, 
How  are  your  glories  in  a  moment  fled  ? 
See,  Pity  weeps,  and  Honour  hangs  his  head. 

0 1  for  some  magic  voice,  some  pow'rful  spell, 
To  call  the  Furies  from  profoundest  hell ; 
Arise,  ye  Fiends,  from  dark  Coeytus'  brink ; 
Soot  all  my  paper;  sulphurize  my  ink; 
So  with  my  theme  the  colours  shall  agree, 
Brimstone  and  black,  the  livery  of  Lee.* 

They  come,  they  comel — convulsive  heaves  the  ground. 
Earth  opens — Lo  I  they  pour,  they  swarm  around ; 
About  me  throng  unnumber'd  hideous  shapes. 
Infernal  wolves,  and  bears,  and  hounds,  and  apes; 
All  Pandemonium  stands  reveal'd  to  sight ; 
Good  monsters,  give  me  leave,  and  let  me  write : 
They  will  be  notic'd — Memory,  set  them  down, 
Tho'  reason  stand  aghast,  and  order  frown. 


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LOTALIST    POETBT. 

Whence  and  what  art  thou,  execrable  form, 
Rough  as  a  bear,  and  roaring  as  a  storm  ? 
Ay,  now  I  know  thee — Livingston  art  thou — 
Gall  in  thy  heart,  and  malice  on  thy  brow ;' 
Coward,  yet  cruel — zealous,  yet  profane ; 
Havoc,  and  spoil,  and  ruin  are  thy  gain ; 
Go,  glut  like  Death  thy  vast  unhide-bound  maw, 
Remorseless  swallow  liberty  and  law ; 
At  one  enormous  stroke  a  nation  slay, 
But  thou  thyself  shall  perish  with  thy  prey. 

What  Fiend  is  this  of  countenance  acute," 
More  of  the  knave  who  seems,  and  less  of  brute; 
Whose  words  are  cutting  like  a  show'r  of  hail, 
And  blasting  as  the  mildew  in  the  vale  ? 
'Tis  Jay — to  him  these  characters  belong : 
Sure  sense  of  right,  with  fix'd  pursuit  of  wrong ; 
An  outside  keen,  where  malice  makes  abode, 
Voice  of  a  lark,  and  venom  of  a  toad ; 
Semblance  of  worth,  not  substance,  he  puts  on ; 
And  Satan  owns  him  for  his  darling  son. 

Flit  not  around  me  thus,  pernicious  elf, 
Whose  love  of  country  terminates  in  self; 
Back  to  the  gloomy  shades,  detested  sprite, 


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Mangier  of  rhet'ric,  enemy  of  right ;  ''' 

Curs'd  of  thy  father;  sum  of  all  that's  base; 
Thy  sight  is  odious,  and  thy  name  is  Chase.' 

"What  spectre's  that  with  eyes  on  earth  intent, 
"Whose  god  is  gold,  whose  glory  cent,  per  cent. ; 
Whose  sonl,  devoted  to  the  love  of  gain. 
Revolts  from  feelings  noble  or  humane? 
Let  friends,  let  family,  let  country  groan. 
Despairing  widows  shriek,  and  orphans  moan ; 
Turn'd  to  the  centre,  where  his  riches  grow, 
His  eye  regards  not  spectacles  of  woe ; 
Morris,  look  up — for  so  thy  name  we  spell — 
On  earth.  Bob  Morris" — Mammon  'tis  in  hell. 
"Wretch,  who  hast  meanly  sold  thy  native  land, 
Tremble,  thou  wretch,  for  vengeance  is  at  hand ; 
Soon  shall  thy  treasures  fly  on  eagle's  wings. 
And  Conscience  goad  thee  with  her  thousand  stings. 

Of  head  erect,  and  self-sufficient  mien. 
Another  Morris  presses  to  be  seen ; 
Demons  of  vanity,  you  know  him  sure; 
This  is  your  pupil,  this  is  Gouverneur; 
Some  little  knowledge,  and  some  little  sense. 
More  affectation  far,  and  more  pretence ; 

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Such  is  the  man — his  tongne  he  never  balks, 
On  all  things  talkable  he  boldly  talks; 
A  specious  orator,  of  law  he  prates ; 
A  pompous  nothing,  mingles  in  debates; 
Consummate  impudence,  sheer  brass  of  soul, 
Crowns  every  sentence,  and  completes  the  whole ; 
In  other  times  unnotic'd  he  might  drop : 
Confusion  makes  a  statesman  of  a  fop." 


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Hail,  Faction,  wayward  queen,  whose  charms  retain 
Such  opposites — the  sordid,  and  the  vain : 
Who  jar  in  all  things  else,  in  thee  unite ; 
Robert  the  greedy,  Gouverneur  the  light ; 
And  if  another  contrast  we  display. 
Still  both  are  thine,  the  serious  and  the  gay.        ' 
There  is  a  man,  all  spirit,  life,  and  ease, 
Whose  native  humour  never  fails  to  please ; 
There  is  a  man  devout,  reserv'd,  austere, 
Whose  grave  demeano'*  other  men  revere ; 
These,  whom  their  various  turns  forbad  to  meet, 
Have  met  in  Congress  in  communion  sweet; 
There,  mirth  put  off,  and  gravity  resign'd. 
The  two  sworn  brothers  stand  in  treason  join'd ; 
lii  triumphe,  sing  the  dev'lish  fiends. 
Discordant  natures  whose  seduction  blends. 


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But  still  the  qaestion  agitates  mankind, 

Could  Duer  be  over-reach'd,  Duane  be  blind?" 

Thy  sprightly  genius,  Duer,  coalds't  thoa  controul. 

The  flow  of  wit,  the  sallies  of  the  soul, 

Abandon  every  muse,  and  every  grace,  :t 

For  eminence  among  a  savage  race  ? 

Conlds't  thou,  Duane,  give  np  thy  favourite  church. 

And  leave  religion  weeping  in  the  lurch, 

Bid  truth  and  decent  piety  adieu. 

For  dire  promotion  o'er  a  godless  crew  ? 

In  Jotham's  famous  apologue  we  read. 

Not  so  the  fruit-trees  wiser  far  decreed ;" 

Shall  we,  said  they,  our  wine  and  oil  desert. 

Which  decorate  the  face,  and  cheer  the  heart, 

Quit  peace  and  plenty,  elegance  and  ease. 

To  reign  scrub  monarchs  over  barbarous  trees  ? 

'Twere  strange — ^but  stranger,  Honour  to  resign. 

And  govern,  legion-like,  the  herd  of  swine. 

What  group  of  Wizards  next  salutes  my  eyes. 
United  comrades,  quadruple  allies? 
Bostonian  Cooper,  with  his  Hancock  join'd, 
Adams  with  Adams,  one  in  heart  and  mind." 
Sprung  from  the  soil,  where  witches  swarm'd  of  yore. 
They  come  well  skill'd  in  necromantic  lore ; 


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Intent  on  mischief,  busily  they  toil, 
The  magic  cauldron  to  prepare  and  boil ; 
Array'd  in  sable  vests,  and  caps  of  fur. 
With  wands  of  ebony  the  mess  they  stir ; 
See  1  the  smoke  rises  from  the  cursed  drench, 
And  poisons  all  the  air  with  horrid  stench. 

Celestial  muse,  I  fear  'twill  make  thee  hot 
To  count  the  vile  ingredients  of  the  pot : 
Dire  incantations,  words  of  death,  they  mix 
With  noxious  plants,  and  Water  from  the  Styx ; 
Treason's  rank  flow'rs,  Ambition's  swelling  fruits. 
Hypocrisy  in  seeds,  and  Fraud  in  roots. 
Bundles  of  Lies  fresh  gather'd  in  their  prime. 
And  stalks  of  Calumny  grown  stale  with  time ; 
Handfuls  of  Zeal's  intoxicating  leaves; 
Riot  in  bunches,  Cruelty  in  sheaves; 
Slices  of  Cunning  cut  exceeding  thin ; 
Kernels  of  Malice,  rotten  cores  of  Sin; 
Branches  of  Persecution,  boughs  of  Thrall, 
And  sprigs  of  Superstition,  dipt  in  gall; 
Opium  to  lull  or  madden  all  the  throng, 
And  assa-fcetida  profusely  strong; 
Milk  from  Tisiphone's  infernal  breast; 
Herbs  of  alt  venom,  drugs  of  every  pest, 


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With  minerals  from  the  centre  bronght  by  Gnomes ; 
All  seethe  together  till  the  furnace  foams. 

Was  this  the  potion,  this  the  draaght  design'd 
To  cheat  the  croud,  and  fascinate  mankind  ? 
O  void  of  reason  they,  who  thus  were  caught ; 
0  lost  to  virtue,  who  so  cheap  were  bought ; 
O  folly,  which  all  folly  sure  transcends, 
Such  bungling  sorc'rers  to  account  as  friends. 

Tet  tho'  the  frantic  populace  applaud, 
'Tis  Satire's  part  to  stigmatize  the  fraud. 
Exult,  ye  jugglers,  in  your  lucky  tricks; 
Yet  on  your  fame  the  lasting  brand  we'll  fix. 
Cheat  male  and  female,  poison  age  and  youth ; 
Still  we'll  pursue  you  with  the  goad  of  truth. 
Whilst  in  mid-heav'n  shines  forth  the  golden  flame, 
Hancock  and  Adams  shall  be  words  of  shame ; 
Whilst  silver  beams  the  face  of  night  adorn, 
Cooper  of  Boston  shall  be  held  in  scorn. 


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Discharge  the  cannon — Lo !  the  warrior  comes ! 
He  comes,  not  tame  as  on  Ohio's  banks. 
But  rampant  at  the  head  of  ragged  ranks. 


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Hunger  and  itch  are  with  him — Oatea  and  Wayne — '■ 
And  all  the  lice  of  Egypt  in  his  train.  ^ 

Sure  these  are  FalstafT's  soldiers,  poor  and  bare; 
Or  else  the  rotten  regiments  of  Rag-fair:'* 
Bid  the  French  generals  to  their  Chief  advance, 
And  grace  his  suite — O  shame !  they're  fled  to  France.''' 
Wilt  thou,  great  chief  of  Freedom's  lawless  sons, 
Great  captain  of  the  western  Goths  and  Huns, 
Wilt  thou  for  once  permit  a  private  man 
To  parley  with  thee,  and  thy  conduct  scan  ? 
At  Reason's  bar  has  Catiline  been  heard : 
At  Ronson'a  bar  e'en  Cromwell  has  appear'd : 
Successless,  or  successful,  all  must  stand 
At  her  tribunal  with  uplifted  hand.'^ 
Severe,  but,  just,  the  case  she  fairly  states ; 
And  fame  or  infamy  her  sentence  waits. 


Hear  thy  indictment,  Washington,  at  large ; 

Attend  and  listen  to  the  solemn  charge : 

Thou  hast  supported  an  atrocious  cause 

Against  thy  King,  thy  Country,  and  the  laws ; 

Committed  perjury,  encourag'd  lies. 

Forced  conscience,  broken  the  most  sacred  ties; 

Myriads  of  wives  and  fathers  at  thy  hand 

Their  slaughter'd  husbands,  slaughter'd  sons  demand ; 


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That  pastures  hear  no  more  the  lowing  kine, — 
That  towns  are  desolate,  all— all  is  thine; 
The  freiiiient  sacrilege  that  pain'd  my  sight :"' 
The  blasphemies  my  pen  abhors  to  write ; 
Innumerable  crimes  on  thee  must  fall — 
For  thou  maintainest,  thou  defendest  all. 

Wilt  thou  pretend  that  Britain  is  in  fault? 

In  Reason's  court  a  falsehood  goes  for  nought. 

Will  it  avail,  with  subterfuge  rcfin'd 

To  say,  such  deeds  are  foreign  to  thy  mind  ? 

Wilt  thou  assert  that,  generous  and  humane, 

Thy  nature  suffers  at  another's  pain  ? 

Ue  who  a  band  of  ruffians  keeps  to  kill, 

Is  he  not  guilty  of  the  blood  they  spill  ? 

Who  guards  M'Kean,  and  Joseph  Reed  the  vile, 

Help'd  he  not  murder  Roberts  and  Carlisle?" 

So,  who  protects  committees  in  the  chair, 

In  all  their  shocking  cruelties  must  share. 

What  could,  when  half-way  np  the  hill  to  fame, 
Induce  thee  to  go  back,  and  link  with  shame  ? 
Was  it  ambition,  vanity,  or  spite, 
That  prompted  thee  with  Congress  to  unite ; 
Or  did  all  three  within  thy  bosom  roll. 


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"Thou  heart  of  hero  with  a  traitor's  soul?" 
Go,  wretched  author  of  thy  country's  grief, 
Patron  of  villainy,  of  villains  chief; 
Seek  with  thy  cursed  crew  the  central  gloom, 
Ere  Truth's  avenging  sword  begin  thy  doom ; 
Or  sadden  vengeance  of  celestial  dart 
Precipitate  thee  with  augmented  smart. 


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0  Poet,  seated  on  the  lofty  throne. 

Forgive  the  bard  who  makes  thy  words  his  own ; 
Surpriz'd  I  trace  in  thy  prophetic  page 
The  crimes,  the  follies  of  the  present  age ; 
Thy  scenery,  sayings,  admirable  man, 
Pourtray  our  struggles  with  the  dark  Divan. 
"What  Michael  to  the  first  arch-rebel  said. 
Would  well  rebuke  the  rebel  army's  head; 
What  Satan  to  th'  angelic  Prince  replied. 
Such  are  the  words  of  Continental  pride. 

1  swear  by  Him,  who  rules  the  earth  and  sky, 
The  dread  event  shall  equally  apply ; 

That  Clinton's  warfare  is  the  war  of  God, 
And  Washington  shall  feel  the  vengeful  rod. 


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PART  II.  "  _ —  - 

Why  has  thou  soar'd  so  high,  ambitious  muse  ? 
Descend  in  prudence,  and  contract  thy  views ; 
Not  always  generals  ofifer  to  our  aim; 
By  turns  we  must  advert  to  meaner  game. 


Yet  hard  to  rescue  from  oblivion's  grasp, 

The  worthless  beetle,  and  the  noxious  asp ; 

And  full  as  hard  to  save  for  after-times 

The  names  of  men  known  only  for  their  crimes. 

Left  to  themselves  they  soon  would  be  forgot ; 

But  yet  'tis  right  that  rogues  should  hang  and  rot. 

Still,  as  we  own,  and  as  old  saws  relate, 

Not  always  thrives  the  verse  that  haunts  the  great: 

Of  rulers  in  America,  I  deem. 

Swift  is  the  change,  and  slight  is  the  esteem  ; 

When  Houston  from  Savannah  fled  of  late, 

Did  any  ask  who  took  his  chair  of  state?'" 

Let  Henry  quit,  and  Jeflerson  succeed;'^ 


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Let  "Wharton's  place  (who  cares  ?)  be  fill'd  by  Reed  ;* 
Who  matters  what  of  Stirling  may  become, 
The  quintessence  of  whisky,  soul  of  rum  ?"' 
Fractious  at  nine,  quite  gay  at  twelve  o'clock; 
From  thence  till  bed-time  stupid  as  a  stock : 
These  are  sad  samples — but  we'll  cull  our  store; 
Can  liberality  herself  do  more  ? 

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Turn  out,  black  monsters — let  us  take  our  choice ; 

What  dev'lish  figure's  this,  with  dev'lish  voice? 

Oh  1  'tis  Pulaski — 'tis  a  foreign  chief; 

On  him  we'll  comment — be  our  comment  brief: 

What  are  his  merits,  judges  may  dispute ; 

We'll  solve  the  doubt,  and  praise  him  for  a  brute. 

No  quarter,  is  his  moito — sweet  and  short: 

Good  Britons,  give  him  a  severe  retort. 

As  yet  he  'scapes  the  shot  deserv'd  so  well ; 

His  nobler  horse  in  Carolina  fell ; 

He  fears  not  in  the  field  where  heroes  bleed, 

He  starts  at  nothing  but  a  gen'rous  deed. 

Escap'd  from  Poland,  where  his  murd'rous  knife, 
'Tis  said,  was  rais'd  against  his  sov'reign's  life ; 
Perhaps  he  scoffs  with  fashionable  mirth 
The  notion  of  a  God,  who  rules  the  earth : 


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Fool,  not  to  sec  that  something  more  than  lot, 
Conducts  the  traitor  to  this  destin'd  spot; 
Rank  with  congenial  crimes,  that  call  for  blood ; 
Where  justice  soon  must  pour  the  purple  flood  ; 
A  parricide,  with  parricides  to-die, 
And  vindicate  the  pow'r  that  reigns  on  high.** 


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Who  is  that  phantom,  silent,  pale,  and  slow, 
That  looks  the  picture  of  dejected  woe  ? 
Art  thou  not  Wilson  ? — ha  I  dost  thou  lament   ■ 
Thy  poison'd  principles,  thy  days  mis-spent  ? 
Was  it  thy  fatal  faith  that  led  thee  wrong  ? 
Yet  hads't  thou  reason,  and  that  reason  strong: 
Judgment  was  thine,  and  in  no  common  share ; 
That  judgment  cultur'd  with  assiduous  care : 
But  all  was  fruitless ;  popular  applause 
Seduc'd  thee  to  embrace  an  impious  cause.*" 
Now,  or  my  mind  deceives  me,  thou  wouldst  fain 
Thy  former  duty,  former  truth  regain : 
Like  some  rash  boy,  whom  strong  desire  to  lave 
Too  daring,  tempts  to  trust  the  briny  wave ; 
But  soon  borne  out  to  distance  from  the  strand, 
He  longs  with  ardour  to  retrieve  the  land : 
In  vain — the  waves  his  weak  endeavours  spurn. 
And  rapid  tides  forbid  him  to  return. 


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Boom  for  a  spectre  of  portentous  show ; 
Make  room  for  triple-headed  Roberdeaul*» 
Churchman,  dissenter,  methodist  appear ; 
Chairman,  and  congress-man,  and  brigadier; 
Cerberean  barker  at  the  Stygian  ford. 
Where  is  thy  bible,  say,  and  where  thy  sword  ? 
Thy  bible — that  long  since  was  wisely  lost, 
Because  its  maxims  with  thy  practice  cross'd ; 
Well,  but  thy  weapon — was  it  lost  in  fight? 
Hush,  I  remember — 'twas  to  aid  thy  flight. 
Of  brass,  lead,  leather,  treble  is  thy  shield ; 
And  treble  tremblings  seize  thee  in  the  field ; 
Treble  in  office  and  in  faith  thou  art. 
And  nothing  double  in  thee,  but  thy  heart. 


Ye  priests  of  Baal,  from  hot  Tartarean  stores, 
Approach  with  all  the  prophets  of  the  groves. 
Mess-mates  of  Jezebel's  luxurious  mess, 
Come  in  the  splendor  of  pontific  dress ; 
Haste  to  receive  your  chief  in  solemn  state ; 
Haate  to  attend  on  Witherspoon  the  great.*" 
Ye  lying  spirits  too,  who  brisk  and  bold     *• 
Appeared  before  the  throne  divine  of  old. 
For  form,  not  use,  augment  his  rev'rend  train ; 
The  sire  of  lies  resides  within  his  brain. 


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Scotland  confess'd  him  sensible  and  shrewd, 
Austere  and  rigid ;  many  thought  him  good. 
But  turbulence  of  temper  spoil'd  the  whole, 
And  show'd  the  movements  of  his  inmost  soul, 
Disclos'd  machinery  loses  of  its  force : 
He  felt  the  fact,  and  westward  bent  his  course. 


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Princeton  receiv'd  him,  bright  amidst  his  flaws, 
And  saw  him  labour  in  the  good  old  cause ; 
Saw  him  promote  the  meritorious  work, 
The  hate  of  Kings,  and  glory  of  the  Kirk. 


Excuse,  each  reverend  Caledonian  seer. 
Whose  worth  I  own,  whose  learning  I  revere ; 
Your  duty  to  the  Prince  who  fills  the  throne, 
Your  liberal  sentiments  are  fully  known  : 
Here  in  these  lands  start  up  a  spurious  brood. 
And  boast  themselves  allied  to  you  in  blood; 
Think  it  not  hard  their  faults  if  I  condemn ; 
'Tis  not  with  you  I  combat,  but  with  them.»^ 


Return  we  to  the  hero  of  our  song : 
Who  now  but  he  the  darling  of  the  throng; 
Known  in  the  pulpit  by  seditious  toils; 
Grown  into  consequence  by  civil  broils ; 


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Three  times  he  tried,  and  miserabiy  fail'd 

To  overset  the  laws — the  foarth  prevail'd. 

Whether  as  tool  he  acted,  or  as  guide, 

Is  yet  a  doubt ;  his  conscience  mast  decide. 

Meanwhile  unhappy  Jersey  mourns  her  thrall, 

Ordain'd  by  vilest  of  the  vile  to  fall ; 

To  fall  by  Witherspoon — 0  name,  the  curse 

Of  sound  religion,  and  disgrace  of  verse. 

Member  of  Congress  we  must  hail  him  next : 
Come  out  of  Babylon,  was  now  his  text. 
Fierce  as  the  fiercest,  foremost  of  the  first. 
He'd  rail  at  Kings,  with  venom  well-nigh  burst : 
Not  uniformly  grand — for  some  bye  end 
To  dirtiest  acts  of  treasou  he'd  descend. 
I've  known  him  seek  the  dungeon  dark  as  night, 
Imprison'd  Tories  to  convert  or  fright ; 
Whilst  to  myself  I've  humm'd,  in  dismal  tune, 
I'd  rather  be  a  dog  than  Witherspoon. 
Be  patient,  reader — for  the  issue  trust, 
His  day  will  come — remember,  Heav'n  is  just. 

Yes,  Heav'n  is  just — what  then  can  they  expect, 
Who,  not  impell'd  by  violence  of  sect — 
Bred  up  in  doctrines  eminently  pure, 


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Which  loyalty  instill,  and  pence  ensure — 

Yet  idolize  Rebellion's  bleating  calves, 

Or  meanly  split  their  principles  in  halves. 

Half  priest,  half  presbyter,  I  mourn  thee.  White  I" 

Half  whig,  half  tory,  Smith,  canst  thou  be  right  ?*8 

0  fools,  to  worship  in  forbidden  ground, 

0  worse  than  rebels,  who  your  mother  wound  1 


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What  uproar  now — what  hideous  monsters  rush, 
Whose  recreant  looks  put  honour  to  the  blush  ? 
Mixtures  of  pallid  fear,  and  bloody  rage. 
Like  Banquo's  ghost  tremendous  on  the  stage ; 
These  are  from  Georgia,  from  the  southern  sun ; 
Swift  as  Achilles,  not  to  fight,  but  run ; 
Their  hides  all  reeking  from  the  British  lash — 
Queer  gen'rals — Moultrie,  Lincoln,  Elbert,  Ash.»° 


Bring  up  yon  wretched  solitary  pair,^' 
Mark'd  with  pride,  malice,  envy,  rage,  despair. 
Why  are  you  banish'd  from  your  comrades,  tell  ? 
Will  none  endure  your  company  in  hell  ? 
That  all  the  fiends  avoid  your  sight  is  plain, 
Infamous  Reed,  more  infamous  M'Kean. 
Is  this  the  order  of  yoar  rank  agreed ; 
Or  is  it  base  M'Kean,  and  baser  Reed  ? 
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Go,  shunn'd  of  men,  disown'd  of  devils,  go, 
And  traverse  desolate  the  realms  of  woe. 


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Ye  pow'rs,  what  noise,  what  execrable  yell  I 
How  now,  Dick  Peters,*'  hast  thou  emptied  hell  ? 
Legions  and  shoals  of  all  prodigious  forms. 
Loud  as  the  rattling  of  a  thousand  storms, 
Gorgons  in  look,  and  CaflFres  in  address, 
Dutch,  Yankies,  Yellow-wigs^  for  audience  press. 

Wretches,  whose  acts  the  very  French  abhor; 
Commissioners  of  loans,  and  boards  of  war, 
Marine  committees,  commissaries,  scribes, 
Assemblies,  councils,  senatorial  tribes. 
Vain  of  their  titles  all  attention  claim ; 
Proud  of  dishonour,  glorying  in  their  shame. 
Ask  you  the  names  of  these  egregious  wights  ? 
I  could  as' soon  recount  Glendower's  sprites. 
Thick  as  musquitos,  venomously  keen ; 
Thicker  than  locusts,  spoilers  of  the  green ; 
Swarming  like  maggots,  who  the  carcass  scour 
Of  some  poor  ox,  and  as  they  crawl,  devour ; 
They'd  mock  the  labour  of  a  hundred  pens : 
"Back,  owly-headed  monsters,  to  your  dens." 


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II 


At  length  they're  ailenc'd — Laurens,  thoa  draw  near ; 
What  I  shall  utter,  thou  attentive  hear : 
I  loathe  all  conference  with  thy  boist'rous  clan ; 
But  now  with  thee  I'll  argue  as  a  man.«* 


What  could  incite  thee,  Laurens,  to  rebel  ? 

Thy  soul  thou  wouldst  not  for  a  trifle  sell. 

'Twas  not  of  pow'r  the  wild,  insatiate  lust; 

Mistaken  as  thou  art,  I  deem  thee  just. 

Saw'st  thou  thy  King  tyrannically  rule  ? 

Thou  couldst  not  think  it — thou  art  not  a  fool. 

Thou  y/aSt  no  bankrupt,  no  enthusiast  thou ; 

The  clearness  of  thy  fame  e'en  foes  allow : 

For  months  I  watch'd  thee  with  a  jealous  eye, 

Yet  could  no  turpitude  of  mind  espy : 

In  private  life  I  hold  thee  far  from  base ; 

Thy  public  conduct  wears  another  face. 

In  thee  a  stern  republican  I  view ; 

This  of  thy  actions  is  the  only  clew. 

Admit  thy  principles — I  then  demand, 

Could  these  give  right  to  desolate  a  land  ? 

Could  it  be  right,  with  arbitrary  will 

To  fine,  imprison,  plunder,  torture,  kill  1 

Impose  new  oaths,  make  stubborn  conscience  yield. 

And  force  out  thousands  to  the  bloody  field  ? 


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Could  it  be  right  to  do  these  monstrous  things, 
Because  thy  nature  was  averse  to  Kings? 

Well,  but  a  stern  republican  thou  art ; 
Heav'n  send  thee  soon  to  meet  with  thy  desert  I 
Thee,  Laurens,  foe  to  monarchy  we  call. 
And  thou,  or  legal  government,  must  fall. 
Who  wept  for  Cato,  was  not  Cato's  friend ; 
Who  pitied  Brutus,  Brutus  would  offend; 
So,  Laurens,  to  conclude  my  grave  harangue, 
I  would  not  pity  tho'  I  saw  thee  hang. 


Bless  me  1  what  formidable  figure's  this, 
That  interrupts  my  words  with  saucy  hiss? 
She  seems  at  least  a  woman  by  her  face, 
With  harlot  smiles  adorn'd  and  winning  grace : 
A  glittering  gorget  on  her  breast  she  wears ; 
The  shining  silver  two  inscriptions  bears; 
Servant  of  Servants,  in  a  laurel  wreath. 
But  Lord  of  Lords  is  written  underneath. 
A  Bowing  robe,  that  reaches  to  her  heels, 
From  sight  the  foulness  of  her  shape  conceals, 
She  holds  with  poisoa'd  darts  a  quiver  stor'd 
Circean  potions,  and  a  flaming  sword. 
This  is  Democracy — the  case  is  plain ; 


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Slic  comes  attended  by  a  motley  train : 
Addresses  to  the  people  some  unfold ; 
Rods,  scourges,  fetters,  axes,  others  hold ; 
The  sorceress  waves  her  magic  wand  about, 
And  models  at  her  will  the  rabble  rout ; 
Here  Violence  puts  on  a  close  disguise 
And  Public  Spirit's  character  belies. 
The  t^ress  of  Policy  see  Cunning  steal, 
And  Persecution  wear  the  coat  of  Zeal ; 
Hypocrisy  Religion's  garb  assume. 
Fraud  Virtue  strip,  and  figure  in  her  room ; 
With  other  changes  tedious  to  relate 
All  emblematic  of  our  present  state." 


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She  calls  the  nations — Lo  1  in  crowds  they  sup 
Intoxication  from  her  golden  cup. 
Joy  to  my  heart,  and  pleasure  to  my  eye, 
A  chosen  phalanx  her  attempts  defy : 
In  rage  she  rises  and  her  arrows  throws ; 
0  all  ye  saints  and  angels  interpose ! 
Amazement  1  every  shaft  is  spent  in  vain ; 
The  sons  of  Truth  inviolate  remain. 
Invulnerable  champions,  sacred  band. 
Behind  the  shield  of  Loyalty  they  stand ; 

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Unhurt,  UDsullied  they  muintain  their  ground, 
And  all  the  host  of  houv'n  their  iiraiscs  sound. 

Yet  too,  too  many  feel  her  baneful  spell ; 
Bleed  by  her  shafts,  or  by  her  venom  swell. 
The  cruel  plague  assaults  each  vital  part ; 
Arise,  some  sage  of  Esculapian  art  1 
Thee,  Inglis,  wise  physician,  thee  I  urge;" 
Direct  the  diet  thou,  prepare  the  purge. 
Thou  to  the  bottom  probe  the  dangerous  sore, 
And  in  the  wound  the  friendly  balsam  pour. 
Enough  for  me  the  caustic  to  apply. 
Twinge  the  proud  flesh,  and  draw  the  face  awry : 
Thou,  cure  the  parts  which  I  have  forc'd  to  feel ; 
I  make  the  patient  smart,  but  thou  canst  heal. 


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PART  III. 


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When  the  wise  ruler  of  Glubdubdrib's  isle 

Had  entertain'd  Sir  Gulliver  awhile, 

With  various  spectacles  of  ancient  days, 

Kings  crown'd  with  gold,  and  poets  deck'd  with  bays ; 


THE    AMERICA  ^    TIMES. 

Sages  with  pupils,  tyrants  with  their  slaves, 
Heroea  and  traitors,  seimtors  niul  knaves; 
When  each  instructive  lesson  was  express'd, 
And  the  rich  banquet  bad  sufGc'd  the  guest : 
Then  wav'd  the  great  controuler  of  the  dead 
His  magic  ensign,  and  the  vision  fled. 


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Have  wo  less  pow'r  o'er  that  infernal  crew 
Which  lately  pass'd  before  us  in  review  ? 
Our  invox^ation  sammon'd  up  the  pack: 
Our  potent  word  can  send  them  headlong  back. 
Yo  coxcomb  Congressmen,  declaimers  keen. 
Brisk  puppets  of  the  Philadelphia  scene ; 
Ye  numerous  chiefs,  who  can  or  cannot  fight; 
Ye  curious  scribes,  who  can  or  cannot  write ; 
Ye  lawyers  who,  for  law,  confusion  teach ; 
Ye  preachers  who,  for  gospel,  discord  preach; 
Statesmen,  who  rule  as  none  e'er  ruled  before,— 
Mark,  I  dismiss  you  to  the  Stygian  shore : 
Away,  fantastic,  visionary  throng  1 
Come,  sober  Reason,  and  direct  the  song. 


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But  what  can  Reason  in  a  world  like  this  ? 
For  one  that  plauds  her,  millions  hate  and  hiss. 
She  shines,  'tis  true,  with  ever  blooming  charms; 


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Peace  in  her  look,  and  pleasure  in  her  arms; 
But  not  a  guinea  has  she  to  bestow, 
And  men  avoid  her  as  a  mortal  foe. 
Who  without  wealth  would  take  her  for  a  bride  ? 
James  Smith  from  childhood  has  her  pow'r  defied;"' 
Hartley*^  and  Dickinson  ,'8  as  best  may  suit, 
With,  or  without  her,  by  the  hour  dispute ; 
'Tis  said  that  once,  on  Burgoyne's  strange  affair, 
She  spake  her  mind,  and  made  the  Congress  stare : 
Perhaps  with  Laurens,  (did  not  Laurens  sell 
His  virtue  for  a  name),  she'd  love  to  dwell. 

Amidst  the  war  of  words,  the  roar  of  lungs ; 
The  barbarous  outcry  of  confederate  tongues, 
Seditious,  busy,  turbulent,  and  bold ; 
Votes  to  be  bought,  opinions  to  be  sold, 
What  chance  has  Reason  ? — her  soft  voice  in  vain 
May  plead,  lament,  expostulate,  complain ; 
With  heav'n-born  eloquence  should  angels  speak, 
Against  the  crisis  Heav'n  itself  were  weak : 
Howl,  all  ye  fiends,  and  all  ye  devils,  bawl  I 
Will.  Henry  Drayton*"  shall  outdo  you  all. 


When  civil  madness  first  from  man  to  man 
In  these  devoted  climes  like  wildfire  ran ; 


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THE    AMERICAN    TIMES. 

There  were  who  gave  the  moderating  hint,     ^ 
In  conversation  some,  and  some  in  print : 
Wisely  they  spake,  and  what  was  their  reward  ? 
The  tar,  the  rail,  the  prison,  and  the  cord. 

Ev'n  now  there  are,  who  bright  in  Reason's  dress 
Watch  the  pollated  Continental  press: 
Confront  the  lies  that  Congress  sends  abroad ; 
Expose  the  sophistry,  detect  the  fraod. 
Truth's  genuine  maxims  forcibly  display: 
Chandler  and  Coxe  are  proofs  of  what  I  say.** 


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But  knights  of  old,  who  wander'd  thro'  the  world. 

And  fell  destruction  on  enchanters  hurl'd ; 

Slew  fiery  dragons,  giants  overcame. 

And  sav'd  from  ruin  many  a  peerless  dame ; 

Play'd  not  so  deep,  so  desperate  a  stake, 

As  he  who  draws  the  pen  for  Virtue's  sake. 

For  once  the  monster  slain,  the  spell  was  broke ; 
And  joy  succeeded  to  the  daring  stroke : 
The  ladies  bless'd  their  lovers  with  their  charms, 
And  the  knight  rested  from  his  feats  of  arms. 


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She  rallies  fresh  her  force  tho'  oft  repell'd. 
Cut,  hacli'd,  and  mangled,  she  denies  to  yield, 
And  strait  returns  with  vigour  to  the  field : 
Champions  of  truth,  our  efforts  are  in  vain ; 
Fast  as  we  slay,  the  foe  revives  again. 
Vainly  th'  enchanted  castle  we  surprize ; 
New  monsters  hisa,  and  new  enchantments  rise. 
Was  Samuel  Adams  to  become  a  ghost, 
Another  Adams  would  assume  his  post:^ 
Was  bustling  Hancock  number'd  with  the  dead, 
Another  full  as  wise  might  raise  his  head : 
What  if  the  sands  of  Laurens  now  were  run, 
How  should  we  miss  him — has  he  not  a  son  ? 
Or  what  if  Washington  should  close  his  scene, 
Could  none  succeed  him  ? — Is  there  not  a  Qreen  ? 
Knave  after  knave  as  easy  we  could  join, 
As  new  emissions  of  the  paper  coin. 
When  it  became  the  high  United  States 
To  send  their  envoys  to  Versailles'  proud  gates, 
Were  not  three  ministers  produc'd  at  once  ? 
Delicious  group — fanatic,  deist,  dunce. 
And  what  if  Lee,  and  what  if  Silas  fell,*^ 
Or  what  if  Franklin  should  go  down  to  hell  ;** 
Why  should  we  grieve  ?  the  land,  'tis  understood, 
Can  furnish  hundreds  equally  as  good. 


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When  like  a  hill  convuls'd,  whose  womb  has  nurs'd, 
Internal  fires,  the  constitution  burst;** 
What  strange  varieties  we  daily  saw — 
What  prodigies  of  policy  and  law  I 
See  in  committees  Ignorance  preside ; 
Conventions  met,  and  Folly  was  their  guide ; 
Plan  follow'd  plan,  first,  second,  and  the  third. 
More  barb'rous  who  can  say,  or  more  absurd. 
With  full  consent,  poor  Reason  was  dethron'd ; 
The  mad-man  govern'd,  ana  the  wise  man  groan'd. 
But  why  blot  paper  with  these  idle  schemes  ? 
Or  why  enum'rate  undigested  dreams  ? 


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Expose  an  opal  to  the  solar  ray. 
And  mark  the  beams  that  momentary  play : 
See  the  gay  stone,  in  mimic  robes  array'd. 
Glow  in  the  red  or  in  the  purple  fade ; 
In  swift  progression  vary  to  the  sight. 
And  run  thro'  all  the  difiPerent  modes  of  light. 
Go  then,  and  count  the  colours  as  they  rise ; 
Tell,  if  thou  canst,  the  numbers  of  the  dyes; 
Each  combination  of  the  fluid  mass ; 
Kor  let  the  shifting  of  a  sun-beam  pass. 
This  once  accomplish'd,  thy  sagacious  pen 
May  note  the  phrenzies  of  impatient  men, 


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The  bands  of  faith  and  loyalty  who  break, 

And  roam  the  fields  of  popular  mistake. 

Truce  with  these  flow'rs — the  Times  are  out  of  joint  j 

Hence  trifling — come  we  closer  to  the  point : 

Some  muse  attendant  on  th'  eternal  King, 

Truth's  radiant  mirror  for  my  guidance  bring. 

I  ask  not  now  the  thunder  and  the  fire ; 

The  still  small  voice  is  all  that  I  desire. 

Stand  forth,  Taxation — kindler  of  the  flame; 
Inexplicable  question,  doubtful  claim : 
Suppose  the  right  in  Britain  to  be  clear; 
Britain  was  mad  to  exercise  it  here. 
Call  it  unjust,  or,  if  you  please,  unwise ; 
The  Colonists  were  mad  in  arms  to  rise : 
Impolitic,  and  open  to  abuse. 
How  could  it  answer — what  could  it  produce  ? 
No  need  for  furious  demagogues  to  chafe ; 
America  was  jealous,  and  was  safe. 
Secure  she  stood  in  national  alarms. 
And  Madness  only  would  have  flown  to  arms. 
Arms  could  not  help  the  tribute,  nor  confound : 
Self-slain  it  must  have  tumbled  to  the  ground. 
Impossible  the  scheme  should  e'er  succeed, 
Why  lift  the  spear  against  a  brittle  reed  ? 


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But  arm  they  would,  ridiculously  brave ; 

Good  langhter,  spare  n>e ;  I  would  faiu  be  grave :      ' 

So  arm  they  did — the  knave  hd  on  the  fool ; 

Good  anger,  spare  rae ;  I  would  fain  be  cool :    ' 

Mixtures  were  seen  amazing  in  their  kind ; 

Extravagance  with  cruelty  was  joined. 

The  presbyterian  with  the  convict  march'd ; 

The  meeting-house  was  thinn'd,  the  gaol  was  search'd : 

Servants  were  seiz'd,  apprentices  enroU'd; 

Youth  guarded  not  the  boy,  nor  age  the  old : 

Tag,  rag,  and  bobtail  issued  on  the  foe, 

Marshal'd  by  generals — Ewin,**  Roberd^au. 


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This  was  not  Reason — this  was  wildest  rage, 
To  make  the  land  one  military  stage : 
The  strange  resolve,  obtain'd  the  Lord  knows  how, 
Which  forc'd  the  farmer  to  forsake  the  plough ; 
Bade  tradesmen  mighty  warriors  to  become, 
And  lawyers  quit  the  parchment  for  the  drum ; 
To  fight  they  knew  not  why,  they  knew  not  what ; 
Was  surely  Madness — Reason  it  was  not. 


Next  independence  came,  that  German  charm,*' 
Of  pow'r  to  save  from  violence  and  harm ; 
That  curious  olio,  vile  compounded  dish, 


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32  LOYALIST    POETRY. 

Like  salmagimdy,  neither  Hesh  nor  fish ; 
That  brazen  serpent,  rais'd  on  Freedom's  pole, 
To  render  all  who  look  upon  it  whole; 
That  half-dressed  idol  of  the  western  shore, 
All  rags  behind,  all  elegance  before ; 
That  conj'rer,  which  conveys  away  your  gold, 
And  gives  you  paper  in  its  stead  to  hold. 


Heav'ns !  how  ray  breast  haa  swell'd  with  painful  throb 

To  view  the  phrenzy  of  the  cheated  mob : 

True  sons  of  liberty  in  flattering  thought ; 

But  real  slaves  to  basest  bondage  brought : 

Frantic  as  Bacchanals  in  ancient  times, 

They  rush'd  to  perpetrate  the  worst  of  crimes ; 

Chas'd  peace,  chas'd  order  from  each  bless'd  abode ; 

While  Reason  stood  abash'd,  and  Folly  crow'd. 

Now,  now  erect  the  rich  triumphal  gate ; 

The  French  alliance  comes  in  solemn  state : 

Hail  to  the  master-piece  of  madness,  hail ; 

The  head  of  glory  with  a  serpent's  tail ! 

This  seals,  America,  thy  wretched  doom : 

Here,  Liberty,  survey  thy  destin'd  tomb : 

Behold,  the  temple  of  tyrannic  sway 

Is  now  complete — ye  deep-ton'd  organs,  play ; 


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THE    AMERICAN    TIMES, 

Proclaim  thro'  all  the  land  that  Louis  rales — 
Worship  your  saint,  ye  giddy-headed  fools. 


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Illastrious  guardians  of  the  laurel  hill, 
Excuse  this  warmth,  these  sallies  of  the  quill : 
I  would  be  temperate,  but  severe  disdain 
Calls  for  the  lash  whene'er  I  check  the  rein : 
I  would  be  patient,  but  the  teazing  smart 
Of  insects  makes  the  fiery  courser  start. 
I  wish'd  for  Rep  son  in  her  calmest  mood, 
In  vain — the  cruel  subject  fires  my  blood. 
When  thro'  the  land  the  dogs  of  havock  roar, 
And  the  torn  country  bleeds  in  every  pore, 
'Tis  hard  to  keep  the  sober  line  of  thought : 
The  brain  turns  round  with  such  ideas  fraught. 
Kage  makes  a  weapon  blunt  as  mine  to  pierce. 
And  indignation  gathers  in  the  verse. 

More  yet  remains,  of  sense  and  honour  stain'd ; 
Conventions  broken,  flags  of  truce  detain'd : 
A  thousand  foolish  freaks  my  wrath  provoke ; 
A  thousand  culprits  ought  to  feel  my  stroke. 
To  treat  of  villains  were  exceeding  hard. 
And  not  to  mention  once  thy  name,  Gerard.** 


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Bat  'twere  the  work  of  Hercules  to  sweep 
From  the  rank  stable  this  euormons  heap. 


Sach  are  the  times — Cease,  aseless  Satire,  cease ! 
Each  moment  dire  barbarities  increase. 
Ev'n  while  I  write,  a  monster  fierce  and  hage 
Has  fix'd  his  station  in  the  land  of  Googe ; 
Virginian  caitiff!  Jefferson  by  name ;*' 
Perhaps  from  Jefferies  sprung  of  rotten  fame. 
His  savage  letter  all  belief  exceeds, 
And  Congress  glories  in  his  brutal  deeds. 
In  the  dark  dungeon  Hamilton  i&  thrown :'° 
The  virtuous  hero  there  disdains  to  groan : 
There  with  his  brave  companions,  faithful  friends, 
Th'  approaching  hour  in  silence  he  attends, 
When,  with  his  council,  shall  the  wretch  expire 
Or  by  the  British,  or  celestial  fire  I 


0 1  may  that  hour  be  soon !  for  pity's  sake. 
Genius  of  Britain,  from  thy  slumber  wake, 
Too  long  has  Mercy  spoke,  but  spoke  in  vain ; 
Let  Justice  now  in  awful  terror  reign. 


Am  I  deceiv'd,  or  see  I  in  the  east 
Tenfold  the  radiance  of  the  day  increas'd  ? 


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Britannia's  guardian  angel  greets  my  eye,     .  ,^ 
In  all  th' unclouded  lustre  of  the  sky. 
See  his  right  hand  a  two  edg'd  weapon  wield : 
The  double  cross  shines  brilliant  on  his  shield ; 
Hear  him,  ye  just,  and  in  his  words  rejoice : 
Ye  hearts  of  rancour,  tremble  at  his  voice. 


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*  Yet,  yet  a  little,  and  the  door  of  grace 

*  Must  close  for  ever  on  an  impious  race : 

'  The  snn  that  visits  these  unhappy  climes, 

'  Is  weary  to  behold  incessant  crimes : 

'  Angels,  appointed  from  the  Throne  divine 

*  To  guard  the  land,  their  hopeless  charge  resign : 
'No  more  their  gentle  pleadings  interpose; 

'  Yet,  yet  a  little,  and  the  door  shall  close. 

'  Ungrateful  country,  by  my  arms  secur'd ! 

'  In  thy  behalf  what  have  I  not  endur'd  ? 

'  When  from  my  grasp  the  sceptre  thou  wonldst  rend- 

'  From  me,  thy  patron,  thy  protecting  friend — 

'  Did  I  not  check  my  thunder  in  mid-air ; 

'  Far  less  inclined  to  punish  than  to  spare  ? 

'  Have  I  not  labonr'd  ceaseless  to  reclaim 

'  Thy  frantic  sons  from  misery  and  shame  ? 

'  With  bounty  carried  to  excess  I  strove 


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'  Thy  doubts,  however  causeless,  to  remove : 
'  As  speaks  a  father  to  his  only  child, 
'  Amidst  repeated  provocations  mild ; 
'  So  have  I  wish'd  thy  errors  to  forgive, 
'And  bid  thee  turn  from  wickedness,  and  live. 

'For  this  thy  malice,  swelling  like  a  flood, 

'  Has  overpass'd  all  bounds,  and  foam'd  with  blood. 

'  Outrage  has  follow'd  outrage,  shocking  sight ! 

'  And  streets  have  echoed,  pulpits  teem'd  with  spite. 

'  The  raving  calumny,  the  dirty  lie, 

'Treach'rous  escape,  assassination  sly; 

'  All  monstrous  crimes,  which  fiends  themselves  reject, 

'  Within  thy  walls  claim'd  honour  and  respect. 

'  Whatever  honest,  peaceable,  or  pure, 

'  Dwelt  in  thy  reach,  to  feel  thy  hate  was  sure  : 

'  The  virtuous  man  was  odious  to  the  cause, 

'  And  he  who  sinn'd  the  most,  gain'd  most  applause. 

'  At  length  the  day  of  Vengeance  is  at  hand : 

'  Th'  exterminating  Angel  takes  his  stand : 

'  Hear  the  last  summons,  rebels,  and  relent : 

'  Yet  but  a  moment  is  there  to  repent. 

'  Lo  I  the  great  Searcher  ready  at  the  door, 

'  Who  means  decisively  to  purge  his  floor : 

'  Yes,  the  wise  Sifter  now  prepares  the  fan 


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'  To  separate  the  meal  from  useless  bran. 

'  Down  to  the  centre  from  his  burning  iro 

'Ye  foes  of  goodness  and  of  truth,  retire: 

'  And  ye,  who  now  lie  bumbled  in  the  dust, 

'  Shall  raise  your  heads,  ye  loyal  and  ye  just; 

'  Th'  approving  sentence  of  your  Sov'reign  gain, 

'  And  shine  refulgent  as  the  starry  train. 

'  Then,  when  eternal  justice  is  appeas'd ; 

'  When  with  due  vengeance  heav'n  and  earth  are  plcas'd; 

'  America,  from  dire  pollution  clear'd, 

'  Shall  flourish  yet  again,  belov'd,  rever'd : 

'  In  duty's  lap  her  growing  sons  be  nurs'd, 

'  And  her  last  days  be  happier  than  her  first.' 


EPIGRAM. 

["The  following  verses,"  says  Rivington's  Gazette,  Oct.  4, 1780, 
"  were  written  on  a  late  exchange  of  prisoners."] 

A  Refugee  Captain  lost  two  of  his  Men ; 
And  ardently  wishing  to  have  them  again, 
To  the  Major  applied,  on  an  Exchange  to  fix. 
And  requested  to  know  if  for  two  he'd  take  six  ? 
Major  Adams  agreed,  nor  said  a  word  more, 
And  Paddy  was  order'd  to  fetch  them  ashore ; 
Who  cried  out  in  surprise ;  '  By  Ja — s,  my  Iloney, 
Our  Men  now  depreciate  as  fast  as  our  Money. ^ 
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THE  WORD  OF  CONGRESS. 


Tartaream  intendit  vooeni. — VinoiL. 

[B;^  the  Rev.  Jonathan  Qj^fijtfi.  From  Rivington's  Royal  Gazette, 
SeptTlS,  1779 ;  collated  with  a  MS.  version  given  to  Mr.  Fisher  by 
Uev.  Dr.  Abercrombie.] 

The  Word  of  Congress,  like  a  round  of  beef, 
To  hungry  Satire  gives  a  sure  relief: 
No  trifling  tid-bits  to  delude  the  pen ; 
But  solid  victuals,  cut  and  come  again. 
Whitfield,  'tis  said,  this  simile  was  thine :" 
Unapt  for  thy  discourse,  it  suits  with  mine. 
/^■C't'HM,     0  P^^~*^n,  I  should  think  it  joy  supreme 
To  win  thy  kind  attention  to  my  theme : 
To  cheer  thy  heart,  with  native  humour  fraught. 
And  steal  thee  from  the  painful  task  of  thought. 
Oft  has  thy  lib'ral,  thy  capacious  mind 
Griev'd  for  the  wicked,  sorrow'd  for  the  blind; 
Deplor'd  past  errors,  present  ills  bemoan'd, 
And  anxious  for  the  future  deeply  groan'd. 
Were  it  not  best  to  quit  these  gloomy  views, 


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THE    WORD    or    0ONORK8S.  89 

And  join  the  sportful  sallies  of  the  Muse?     ., 
Smile  at  those  evils  we  must  both  endure,  ' 

And  laugh  at  follies  which  wc  cannot  cure? 
Come,  friend,  and  let  us  mock,  till  mirth  be  stirr'd 
In  every  vein,  the  many  colour'd  Word. 

Oh  I  'tis  a  Word  of  pow'r,  of  prime  account: 
I've  seen  it  like  the  daring  Osprey  mount; 
I've  seen  it  like  a  dirty  reptile  creep, 
Rush  into  flame,  or  plunge  into  the  deep ; 
I've  heard  it  like  a  hungry  lion  roar, 
Who  tears  the  prey,  and  bathes  himself  in  gore; 
I've  seen  it  softer  than  the  vernal  rain, 
Mildly  descending  on  the  grassy  plain — 
I've  heard  it  pious,  as  a  saint  in  pray'r — 
I've  heard  it  like  an  angry  trooper  swear— 
I've  known  it  suit  itself  to  ev'ry  plan — 
I've  known  it  lie  to  God,  and  lie  to  Man. 

Have  you  not  read  the  marvellous  escapes 
Of  Proteus  shifting  tu  a  thousand  shapes? 
Have  you  not  seen  the  wonders  of  the  stage, 
When  Pantomime  delights  a  trifling  age  ? 
Such  and  more  various,  such  and  more  absurd, 
Charles  Thomson,  witness  of  the  changeful  Word.*' 


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40 


LOYALIST    POETRY. 


He'll  sign  to  anything,  no  matter  what : — 
At  trath  alone  bis  pen  would  make  a  blot. 


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i'l 


There  dwelt  in  Norriton's  sequester'd  bow'rs, 
A  mortal  bless'd  with  mathematic  pow'rs. 
To  whom  was  David  Rittenhouse  unknown? 
Fair  Science  saw,  and  mark'd  him  for  her  own. 
His  eye  Creation  to  its  bounds  would  trace — 
His  mind,  the  regions  of  unbounded  Space. 
Whilst  thus  he  soar'd  above  the  starry  spheres, 
The  Word  of  Congress  sounded  in  his  ears : 
He  listen'd  to  the  voice  with  strange  delight, 
And  swift  descended  from  his  dazzling  height ; 
Then,  mixing  eager  with  seditious  tools, 
Vice-President  elect  of  rogues  and  fools, 
His  hopes  resign'd  of  philosophic  fame — 
A  paltry  statesman  Kittenhouse  became. 

A  Saint  of  old,  as  learned  monks  have  said, 
Preach'd  to  the  Fish — the  Fish  his  voice  obey'd. 
The  same  good  man  conven'd  the  grunting  herd, 
Who  bow'd  obedient  to  his  pow'rful  word : 
Such  energy  had  truth,  in  days  of  yore ; 
Falsehood  and  nonsense,  in  our  days,  have  more. 
Duffield  avows  them  to  be  all  in  all, 


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XnE    WORD   OF    CONGRESS. 

And  mounts,  or  quits  the  Pulpit,  at  their  call. 
In  vain  New  Light  displays  her  heav'nly  shine; 
In  vain  attract  him  Oracles  divine ; 
Chaplain  of  Congress  give  him  to  become, 
Light  may  be  dark  and  Oracles  be  dumb. 
It  pleas'd  Saint  Anthony  to  preach  to  brutes; 
To  preach  to  Devils  best  with  Duffield  suits." 


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Tim  Matlack  once  had  credit  and  esteem : 
His  follies  made  them  vanish  as  a  dream. 
By  all  his  former  friends  abandon'd  quite, 
Game-Cu-.is  and  Nogroes  were  his  sole  delight. 
Vagrant  and  poor,  his  reputation  slurr'd. 
He  hasten'd  to  obey  the  factious  Word. 
Who  now  so  active  in  the  Cause  as  Tim  ? 
Tho'  death  to  honoui',  it  was  life  to  him. 
Restor'd  to  Consequence,  tho'  not  to  Grace, 
Behold  him  fill  the  Secretary's  place ! 
His  pen  can  write  you  paragraphs  by  scores ; 
His  valour  kick  two  Quakers  out  of  doors : 
Tim  for  their  champion  let  the  People  dub; 
Yet  Virtue  still  must  hold  him  for  a  scrub. 


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Kerr,  and  Carmichael,**  Ishraaelites  obscure; 
Who  deem  that  all  things  to  the  pure  are  pure ; 

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42  I  LOYALIST    POETJftY. 

Hag-rid  by  Congress,  by  sedition  stirr'd, 
Desert  the  Bible  to  proclaim  the  sword. 
Such  force  attends  the  fascinating  sound, 
Murder  is  sainted,  perjury  renown'd. 

Spencer  and  Caldwell,  evangelic  pair — ^ 

This  a  smooth  serpent,  that  a  furious  bear— 

With  equal  zeal,  but  different  cast  of  head, 

Prepar'd  the  Doctrine  of  the  Word  to  spread. 

One  on  the  thunder  of  his  tongue  relied: 

The  other,  wisely  to  his  pen  applied. 

Figures  and  tropes  rough  Spencer  chose  to  pour : 

Arabian  figures  suited  Caldwell  more. 

The  first  was  bold  in  treasonable  talk ; 

The  second  took  the  Commissary's  walk. 

Both  were  detested,  as  they  both  deserv'd ; 

But  while  the  penman  throve,  the  spokesman  starv'd. 

Spencer  a  martyr  falls  to  rage  and  rum; 

While  Caldwell  safe  retires  with  half  a  plumb. 


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Tucker,  from  want  and  dirt  and  darkness  sprung, 
Of  formal  face,  and  Oliverian  tongue — 
'Scap'd  from  the  gallows.,  gain'd  the  mob's  esteem; 
But  no  promotion  could  from  fraud  redeem. 
No  rank  his  heart  to  honesty  could  fix ; 


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THE    WORD    OF    OONQRESS. 

Still  graceless  he  pursued  his  native  tricks : 
Now  rose  against  him  the  tumultuous  den: 
The  Dev'l  himself  can  sometimes  rail  at  sin ; 
Too  much  a  knave  for  knaves  themselves  to  bear, 
Abhorr'd  by  all  men,  Tucker  quits  the  chair.^ 

Paschal,  who  never  right  from  wrong  could  tell ; 
Who  never  yet  could  read,  or  write,  or  spell ; 
From  last,  from  awl,  from  cutting-knife  is  torn, 
While  tanners  weep,  and  half-shod  soldiers  mourn. 
He's  now  a  Jast'ce — wherefore  should  we  grudge? 
When  Cong,  r 'i.       vhg,  a  Cobbler  may  be  Judge. 


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These  are  poor  characters — Rise,  Satire  I  rise, 
And  seize  on  villains  of  superior  size. 
Let  censure  reach  to  Shippen'^  and  to  Yates,** 
Or  dignify  the  verse  with  Greene  and  Gates : 
Expose  the  meanness  of  the  P***s  to  view,'*" 
Or  strike  at  Willing,6«  Hamilton,^'  a:nd  Chow:"" 
Macdougall,  Maxwell,  Muhlenberg  attack,"* 
Or  Baylor  clad  in  white,  or  Knox  in  black  :"* 
Or  blast  Poughkeepsie's  Lord,  who  soils  a  fame. 
That  never  but  in  him  was  doom'd  to  shame."* 
Or  vengeful  draw  the  weapon  from  the  sheath, 
And  pluiige  it  in  the  murd'rous  breast  of  Heath."" 


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LOYALIST    POETRY. 


The  blnst'rer;  the  poltroon;  the  Tile;  the  weak; 
Who  fight  for  Congress,  or  in  Congress  speak, 
Or  to  its  edicts  cowardly  submit. 
Alike  should  andergo  the  lash  of  wit. 

Come,  Mifflin,  let  me  put  thee  on  the  stage : 

As  thou  with  Britain,  war  with  thee  I  wage. 

Fierce  Mifflin  foremost  in  the  ranks  was  found : 

Ask  you  the  cause  ?    He  owed  ten  thousand  pound.'"' 

Great  thanks  to  Congress,  and  its  doughty  Word, 

He  cancell'd  debts  by  flourishing  his  sword ! 

Not  that  he  carfes  for  Congress,  or  its  voice ; 

Broils  are  his  Int'rest,  Tumult  is  his  choice. 

But  that  he  wants  the  necessary  skill 

A  pliant  people  to  inflame  at  will : 

But  that  his  genius  yields  to  Roberdeau, 

In  every  art  of  managing  the  low: 

Confusion  would  in  aid  of  Justice  rise. 

Revenge  the  widow's  groans,  the  orphan's  cries ; 

The  robbers  of  their  ill-got  treasure  rob, 

And  give  Joe  Reed  a  victim  to  the  mob. 

Gates  I  have  nam'd,  but  have  not  yet  forsook: 
Step  forward.  Gates — and  tremble  at  my  look. 
Can'st  thou,  most  harden'd  tho'  thou  art,  sustain 


THE    WORD    OF    OONORESS. 


45 


The  glance  of  anger  mingled  with  disdain  P 

I've  seen  thy  father — has  thy  pride  forgot —         ' 

Mean  was  his  ofiBce — very  mean  his  lot. 

A  gracious  Master  overlook'd  thy  birth, 

And  rais'd  thee  far  above  the  dregs  of  eartli. 

Each  act  of  favour  how  hast  thou  return'd  ? 

How  all  the  laws  of  sacred  Honour  spurn'd  ? 

What  vile  ingratitude  thy  soul  has  shown, 

Is  fit  for  devils  to  relate  alone.^ 

Go  hide,  abandon'd  monster,  hide  thy  head — 

Go  fly,  if  fly  thou  can'st,  from  inward  dread — 

Call  cliffs,  call  mountains  on  thee  to  descend : 

But  rocks  nor  hills  from  terror  shall  defend. 

In  Hell  seek  refuge — even  there  thou'lt  find 

A  fiercer  hell  hot-bursting  in  thy  mind. 

Where,  where  is  Sinclair?*    Takes  he  to  his  heels? 

Blows  aim'd  at  Gates  by  instinct  Sinclair  feels. 

He  too  fought  nobly  in  his  Country's  cause; 

He  too  the  sword  against  his  Sov'reign  draws. 

Like  Gates  entangled  in  rebellion's  snare, 

He  too,  like  him,  should  tremble  and  despair. 
i  What  comfort  can  they  hope,  what  peace  deserve, 
I  Who  forfeit  virtue,  and  from  duty  swerve  ? 


■  ■— i<ii>in.^i,»i»  j|M»i  rt  - 


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Avenging  furies  shall  their  steps  pursue 

Till,  chas'd  from  earth,  they  join  th'  infernal  ereyr. 


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*******♦,  whose  meanness  in  the  prime  of  life, 
Allow'd  old  *♦**♦*****  to  pollute  his  wife;'** 
Who  still,  regardless  of  the  filthy  blot. 
Owns  all  the  bastards  that  the  letcher  got; 
In  age,  and  equally  to  honour's  grief. 
From  a  tame  cuckold  grows  a  rebel  chief. 
O I  may  no  saucy  cannons  round  him  roar ; 
No  rude  courtmartials  vex  his  quiet  more ; 
His  days  awhile,  good  Destiny,  secure : 
Tho'  stinking,  great;  and  wealthy,  tho'  impure. 
Yes,  let  him  live,  kind  Fate;  but  live  abhorr'd, 
Till  Justice  fastens  to  his  neck  the  cord. 

^midst  ten  thousand  eminently  base, 
Thou,  Sullivan,'*  assume  the  highest  place ! 
Sailor,  and  farmer — barrister  of  vogue — 
Each  state  was  thine,  and  thou  in  each  a  rogue. 
Ambition  came,  and  swallow'd  in  a  trice. 
Like  Aaron's  rod,  the  reptile  fry  of  vice. 
One  giant  passion  then  his  soul  possess'd, 
And  dreams  of  lawless  sway  disturbed  his  rest. 
He  gave  each  wild  imagination  scope, 


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THE    WORD    OF    OONQRESS. 

And  flew  to  Congress  on  the  wings  of  hope. 
Behold  him  there,  but  still  behold  him  curst — 
He  sate  in  Congress;  but  he  Eate  not  first — 
What  could  the  fever  of  his  mind  compose  ? 
Make  him  a  Gen'ral :  Gen'ral  straight  he  grows. 
Head  of  a  shirtless,  shoeless  gang  he  strides, 
While  Wisdom  stares,  and  Folly  shakes  her  sides. 

And  must  I  sing  the  wonders-of  his  might? 
What  are  they? — Rout,  captivity,  and  flight. 
Rhode-Island  saw  him  to  her  forts  advance, 
Assisted  by  the  ships  of  faithless  France : 
Rhode-Island  saw  him  shamefully  retreat. 
In  imitation  of  the  Gallic  fleet. 
His  banners  last  on  Susquehannah  wav'd, 
Where,  lucky  to  excess,  his  scalp  he  sav'd. 

All  these,  and  more  whose  praise  must  be  deferr'd, 
Seditious  rose  when  Congress  gave  the  word : 
Of  various  principles;  from  various  soils; 
•Srait  with  desire  of  change,  or  love  of  broils. 
As  when  an  ass  with  hideous  clamour  brays, 
Unnumber'd  asses  loud  their  voices  raise: 
As  when  a  restless  ram  the  fence  o'erleaps, 
Flocks  leave  their  grazing,  and  pursue  in  heaps: 


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48  LOYALIST    FOITBT. 

So,  at  one  noisy,  turbulent  command,  ».   ' 

Contagion  seiz'd  and  uproar  fiU'd  the  land. 
All  rush'd  like  frigliten'd  sheep,  to  join  the  Cause ; 
Or  in  sonorous  cadence  bray'd  applause. 

Come,  heav'n-born  Truth,  and  analyze  a  Word 
To  all  things  human  and  divine  preferr'd  I 
Guide  of  the  will,  and  ruler  of  the  heart-;— 
Why  not  examine  each  component  part? 
Impress'd  so  deeply,  and  diffus'd  so  wide, 
It  ought  the  test  of  Reason  to  abide : 
Serene  and  beautiful  in  outward  face, 
Within,  all  wisdom,  sanctity,  and  grace : 
Impartial  it  should  be,  and  void  of  faults; 
It  should — but  Truth  from  this  account  revolts. 


Far  other  portrait  the  prevailing  Word 

From  Truth's  unerring  pencil  has  incurr'd. 

Bid  her  describe  the  Congress : — straight  she  draws 

An  hydra-headed  form,  with  harpies'  claws — 

Lol  num'rous  mouths  hiss,  chatter,  bark,  or  croak: 

Here,  one  like  Cacus  belches  fire  and  smoke; 

The  second  like  a  monkey  grins  and  chats ; 

A  third  squalls  horrible,  like  angry  cats : 

Here,  you've  the  growls  and  snarljngs  of  a  dog;   , 


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And  there  the  beastly  gruutings  of  a  hog.  ' ' 

Others  aflfect  the  puritanic  tone ;  )/ 

The  whine,  the  cant,  the  snnflBe,  and  the  groan. 
In  Candour's  accents  falsehoods  some  disguise ; 
Whilst  others  vomit  forth  essential  lies — 
All  sounds  delusive,  all  disgustful  notes,        >  . 
Pour  like  a  torrent  from  their  brazen  throats, 
To  fill  with  rage  the  poor  distracted  crowd; 
Whilst  Discord  claps  her  hands,  and  shouts  aloud. 

This  harsh  account  should  Chanty  distrust, 

Yet  sad  Experience  will  pronounce  it  just. 

Whoe'er  the  Word  of  Congress  shall  peruse, 

In  every  piece  will  see  it  change  its  views: 

Now,  swell  with  duty  to  the  King  elate ; 

Now,  melt  with  kindness  to  the  parent  state ; 

Then  back  to  Treason  suddenly  revolve. 

And  join  in  Suffolk's  infamous  resolve. 

Trace  it  thro'  all  the  windings  of  the  press. 

Vote  or  appeal,  petition  or  address, — 

Trace  it  in  every  act — in  every  speech — 

Too  sure  you'll  find  duplicity  in  each. 

Mark  now  its  soothing,  now  its  threat 'ning  strain; 

Mark  its  hypocrisy,  deceit,  chicane ; 

From  the  soft  breathings  of  the  new-form'd  board, 


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LOYALIST    POETRY. 


To  that  fell  hour  when  Independence  roar'd ; 
Forc'd,  you'll  acknowledge  since  Creation's  dawn, 
Earth  never  yet  produc'd  so  vile  a  spawn. 

But  still,  in  Britain,  many  disbelieve — 
I  own,  'tis  hard  such  baseness  to  conceive. 
Who,  that  beheld  these  foul  impostors  rave 
When  Law  confirmed  the  rights  that  Treaties  gave: 
Heard  them  foretell  Religion's  general  wreck, 
From  Romish  faith  establish 'd  in  Quebec : 
Who,  that  observ'd  ^M  this,  could  e'er  opine 
That  Saints  like  these  with  Popery  should  join  ? 
Imagination  must  it  not  surpass. 
That  Congress  should  proceed  in  pomp  to  Mass  ? 
Yet  that  they  did,  authentic  proofs  can  show ; 
Myriads  the  frontless  act — nay,  millions — know.''* 

Here,  gentle  reader,  we'll  go  back  a  space, 

Two  famous  missions  of  the  Word  to  trace. 

Saint  *****,  with  a  priest  in  either  hand, 

Devoutly  travell'd  to  Canadian  land : 

For  those  who  shculd  rebel,  a  copious  store 

Of  Absolutions  oar  apostles  bore. 

In  faith,  it  prov'd  a  memorable  job : 

Its  gracious  sounds  avail'd  not  with  the  mob — 


rfv„., 


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THE    WORD    or    OONQBEBB. 


Al 


Like  Paul  at  Lystra,  it  provok'd  the  stones, 

And  scarce  the  factious  preachers  sav'd  their  bones. 

McWhorter,  Spencer,  with  the  same  designs; — 

A  brace  of  flaming,  pestilent  divines, — 

To  Carolina  went,  by  Cong.'s  decree, 

From  oaths  the  fetter'd  populace  to  free. 

Ridiculous  attempt;  unhallow'd  work; 

Plain  sense  abhorr'd  the  miserable  quirk; 

The  wretched  bigots  were  disraiss'd  with  jeers. 

But  kept  ('twas  more  than  they  deserv'd)  theii'  ears.'* 

Not  so  discourag'd,  the  prolific  Word 
To  more  successful  artifice  recurr'd. 
Swarms  of  deceivers,  practised  in  the  trade. 
Were  sent  abroad  to  gull,  cajole,  persuade; 
Scoff  with  the  scoffer;  with  the  pious  pray; 
Drink  with  the  drunkard;  frolick  with  the  gay: 
All  things  to  all  with  varied  art  become. 
And  bribe  with  paper,  or  inflame  with  rum. 
Others,  apart  in  some  obscure  recess, 
The  studied  lie  for  publication  dress: 
Prepare  the  vague  report,  fallacious  tale; 
Invent  fresh  calumnies;  revive  the  stale; 
Pervert  all  records  sacred  and  profane : 
And  chief  among  them  stands  the  villain  Paine. 


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LOYALIST    POKTRY. 


This  scribbling  imp,  'tis  said,  from  London  came, 

That  seat  cf  glory,  intermixed  with  shame; 

Imperial  City,  Queen  of  Arts  enroU'd, 

But  full  of  vice  as  Sodom  was  of  old; 

Once  with  the  deathless  name  of  Barnard  grac'd ; 

By  Wilkes,  and  Bull,  and  Sawbridge  now  dofac'd.''* 


'."7  ■  ,■', 


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Our  hireling  author  having  chang'd  his  soil, 
True  son  of  Grubstreet,  here  renew'd  his  toil. 
"What  cannot  ceaseless  impudence  produce  ? 

Old "  knows  its  value,  and  its  use. 

He  caught  at  Paine;  reliev'd  his  wretched  plight; 
And  gave  him  notes,  and  set  him  down  to  write. 
Fire  from  the  Doctor's  hints  the  miscreant  took ; 
Discarded  truth,  and  soon  compos'd  a  book : 
A  pamphlet  which,  without  the  least  pretence 
To  reason,  bore  the  name  of  Common  Sense. 
No  matter  what  you  call  this  dogg'rel  stuff. 
Bad  as  it  was,  it  pleas'd ;  and  that's  enough. 
The  work  like  wildfire  through  the  Country  ran, 

And  Folly  bow'd  the  knee  to 's  plan. 

Sense,  reason,  judgment  were  abash'd  and  fled ; 
And  Congress  reign'd  triumphant  in  their  stead. 
O  hapless  Land  I  0  People  void  of  brains! 
My  heart  bleeds  for  you,  tho'  my  soul  disdains. 


TTTB    WORD    Or    0ONOREB8. 

Deep  schemes  ensued,  to  all  appearance  vague, 
But  fitted  to  disseminate  the  plague. 
From  the  back  woods  half  savages  came  down, 
And  awkward  troops  paraded  ev'ry  town. 
Committees  and  Conventions  met  by  scores; 
Justice  was  banish 'd — Law  turn'd  out  of  doors; 
Disorder  seem'd  to  overset  the  land; 
They,  who  appear'd  to  rule,  the  tumult  fann'd. 
But  cunning  stood  behind  with  sure  controul; 
And  in  one  centre  caus'd  to  meet  the  whole. 
By  what  contrivance  this  effect  was  gain'd; 
How  the  new  States  were  finish'd  and  sustained; 
All,  all  should  be  held  up  to  public  scorn; 
An  useful  lesson  to  the  child  unborn  I 


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But  this  would  open  an  immense  career, 
And  into  port  'twere  prudent  now  to  steer. 
Much  have  we  labour'd  in  tempestuous  seas : 
'Tis  time  to  give  the  shatter'd  vessel  eais. 
When  once  refitted,  we'll  again  display 
Satire's  red  ensign  on  the  wat'ry  way ; 
Again  encounter  the  rebellions  Flag, 
And  from  the  stafif  the  stripes  of  Faction  drag; 
These  pirates  hov'ring  on  the  coast  disperse. 
And  chase  them  with  the  flowing  sail  of  verse. 


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LOYALIST    POETRY. 


0 !  grace  of  every  Virtue — meek  ey'd  maid — 
Sweet  Modesty,  in  purple  robes  array'd— 
Think  me  not  vain  of  these  enervate  lines, 
These  feeble  colourings,  and  faint  designs. 
To  bring  some  stouter  Champion  on  the  scene 
Is  all  I  meditate,  is  all  I  mean. 
I  but  endeavour  to  amuse  the  Foo, 
Till  Genius  rise  and  deal  the  fatal  blow. 
But  Genius,  careless  of  his  charge,  sits  still, 
And  lets  the  monster  Congress  rage  at  will : 
Lifts  not  the  terror  of  his  pond'rous  lance : 
Arrests  not  those  who  sell  the  land  to  France: 
Tilts  not  with  bitter  Wayne,  with  boist'rous  Lee : 
But  leaves  the  task  to  Weakness,  and  to  me. 


ai 


Thus,  till  some  favour'd  mortal  raise  his  voice, 
I  must  go  on — 'tis  duty,  and  not  choice. 
Sister  of  Wisdom,  Goddess  of  the  Song, 
Protect  the  meanest  of  the  tuneful  throng  1 
And  when  the  feather'd  weapon  I  prepare, 
Once  more  to  lay  the  villain's  bosom  bare; 
Let  inspiration  from  th'  ethereal  height 
Shed  on  my  soul  her  vivifying  light — 
Poetic  ardour,  strength  of  thought  infuse. 
The  life,  the  spirit,  of  a  glowing  muse. 


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£riORAM. 

Ask  I  too  much  ?  then  grant  me  for  a  time 
Some  deleterious  pow'rs  of  acrid  rhyme: 
Sorae.ar8'nic  verse,  to  poison  with  the  pen 
These  rats,  who  nestle  in  the  Lion's  den  1 

Sept.  1779. 


55 


EPIGRAM 

ON  THE  POOR  OP  BOSTON  BEING  EMPLOYED  IN  PAVING  THE  8TEEET8,  1774. 

[Tliis  refers  to  the  extensive  donations,  not  only  of  money,  but 
of  rice,  wheat,  brandy,  &c.,  sent  from  other  colonies  to  the  people 
of  Boston,  distressed  by  the  working  of  the  Port  Act.  From  Riv- 
ington's  N.  Y.  Gazetteer,  No.  72.    Sept.  2,  1774.] 

In  spite  of  Rice,  in  spite  of  Wheat, 
Sent  for  the  Boston  Poor — to  eat : 
In  spite  of  Brandy,  one  would  think, 
Sent  for  the  Boston  Poor — to  drink : 
Poor  are  the  Boston  Poor,  indeed, 
And  needy,  tho' there  is  no  Need: 
They  cry  for  Bread ;  the  mighty  Ones 
Instead  of  Bread,  give  only  Stones. 


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THE  WHIG. 

5^  Song. 


Atr  :  "  Would  you  woo  a  young  virgin  of  fifteen  years.'''' 


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[From  Rivington's  Gazetteer,  Jan.  26, 1775 :  where  it  is  attributed 
originally  to  Holt's  paper,  and  is  now  thrown  by  the  tory  printer  in 
the  teeth  of  his  whig  rival.  The  piece  seems  to  smack  of  an  Eng- 
lish origin.] 

\ 

Would  you  know  what  a  Whig  is,  and  always  was? 

I'll  show  you  his  face,  as  it  were  in  a  £;lass. 

He's  a  rebel  by  nature,  a  villain  in  grain, 

A  saint  by  profession,  who  never  had  grace. 

Cheating  and  lying  are  puny  things ; 

Rapine  and  plundering  venial  sins ; 

His  great  occupation  is  ruining  nations. 

Subverting  of  Crowns,  and  murdering  Kings. 

To  show  that  he  came  from  a  wight  of  worth, 
'Twas  Lucifer's  pride  that  first  gave  him  birth : 
'Twas  bloody  Barbarity  bore  the  elf : 
Ambition  the  midwife  that  brought  him  forth. 


THANKS    UPON    THANKS. 

Old  Judas  was  tutor,  nntil  he  grew  big;        

Hypocrisy  taught  him  to  care  not  a  fig 
For  all  that  is  sacred, — and  thus  was  created 
And  brought  in  the  world,  what  we  call  a  Whig. 

Spew'd  up  among  mortals  by  hellish  jaws, 
To  strike  he  begins  at  religion  and  laws; 
With  pious  inventions,  and  bloody  intentions, 
And  all  for  to  bring  in  the  good  of  the  cause. 
At  cheating  and  lying  he  plays  his  game; 
Always  dissembling,  and  never  the  same; 
Till  he  fills  the  whole  nation  with  sins  of  d-n-t-n, 
Then  goes  to  the  d-v-l,  from  whence  he  came  1 


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THANKS  UPON  THANKS. 

A  QBACE  FOB  THE  POOR  OF  BOSTON. 

[Thursday,  Deo.  15,  1774,  was  a  day  of  General  Thanksgiving 
ordered  by  the  Massachusetts  Congress.  From  Rivington's  Gazet- 
teer, No.  90.] 

Thanks  to  Hancock  for  Thanksgiving : 
Thanks  to  God  for  our  goodliving : 
Thanks  to  Gage  for  hindering  evil : 
And,  for  source  of  discord  civil 
Thanks  to  Adams — and  the  Devil  I 


1 


JiL. 


/ 


A  FAMILIAE  EPISTLE  FROM  AMERICA. 

[This  piece  is  so  headed  in  the  Pennsylvania  Ledger,  Feb.  14, 
1778 :  which  adds  tliat  its  author  was  a  young  gentleman  of 
Charleston,  who,  on  its  being  made  public,  was  cast  into  gaol.  But 
the  original  MS.  before  me,  is  addressed  to  Robert  Wills,  Esq.,  prin- 
ter of  the  Carolina  Gazette.  Perhaps  it  was  written  with  reference 
to  the  tarring  and  feathering  scene  in  Charleston,  August  11, 1775, 
when  every  one  suspected  of  toryism,  from  Lieut.  Gov.  Bull  down 
to  the  humble  printer  (who  was  gifted  with  certain  loyal  proclivi- 
ties), received  a  monition.  (JDrayton's  Memoirs,  ii.  17. — Thomas' 
Hist,  of  Printing,  ii.  370.)  As  Roboit  Wills  or  Wells  went  to  Eng- 
land soon  after,  he  may  have  taken  the  verses  with  him,  and  re- 
turned them  to  America  in  the  columns  of  some  English  paper.  ] 

Excuse  me,  dear  Robert,  I  can't  think  it  true, 
Tho'  Solomon  says  it,  that  nothing  is  new : 
Had  he  liv'd  in  these  times,  we  had  rather  been  told 
Oar  West  World's  so  new,  it  has  nothing  that's  old. 
Bat  should  he  insist  in  his  old  way  to  have  it, 
I  would  beg  leave  to  ask  of  this  wise  son  of  David 
A  few  simple  qnestions :  as,  where  he  e'er  saw 
Men  legally  punish'd  for  not  breaking  the  law  ? 
Tarr'd,  feather'd,  and  carted  for  drinking  Bohea  ? 
And  by  force  and  oppression  compell'd  to  be  free  ? 


1 


A    FAMILIAR    EPISTLE    FROM    AMERICA. 


59 


1 


The  same  men  maintaiDing  that  all  human  kind 

Are,  have  been,  and  shall  be,  as  free  as  the  wind; 

Yet  impaling  and  burning  their  slaves  for  believing 

The  truth  of  the  lessons  they're  constantly  giving? 

Or  what  financiers,  politicians,  or  sages, 

In  the  Post  or  the  Antediluvian  ages, 

He  ever  had  seen,  ever  heard  of,  or  read, 

Who  to  raise  funds  for  war  first  abolish'd  their  trade? 

And,  having  all  channels  of  commerce  obstructed 

By  which  gold  and  silver  to  states  are  inducted ; 

In  an  instant,  more  riches  from  paper  produce 

And  the  quill  of  a  gray  cabalistical  goose. 

Than  all  the  disciples  of  sage  Rosicrucius 

Ever  made  from  their  talisman-stones  and  their  cruces  ? 


Not  only  our  Money  from  Nothing  appears : 
From  Nothing  our  hopes,  and  from  Nothing  our  fears; 
From  Nothing  our  statesmen,  our  army,  our  fleet; 
Prom  nothing  they  came,  and  to  nought  they'll  retreat; 
Vnd  no  arms  they  handle  so  well  as  their  feet. 
Jown  at  night,  a  bricklayer  or  carpenter  lies; 
With  next  sun,  a  Lycurgus  or  Solon  doth  rise: 
While  doctors,  who  never  made  curing  their  trade. 
Give  a  bolus  of  iron,  or  a  pillule  of  lead ; 
But,  still  counteracted  by  blunders  or  fate, 

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(50  LOYALIST    POETRT. 

Tho'  they  murder'd  in  friendship,  they  spare  in  their  bote. 
Priests,  tailors,  and  cobblers,  fill  with  heroes  the  camp ; 
And  sailors,  like  crawfish,  crawl  out  of  each  swamp. 
Self  created  from  nought,  like  a  mushroom,  we  see 
Spring  an  able  commander  by  land  and  by  sea:''' 
Late  of  Tories  the  prince,  and  his  country's  rank  foe; 
Now  the  Congress's  Chairman,  a  split-shirted  beau." 
All  titles  of  honour  and  profit  do  wait  on 
Judge,  General,  Counsellor,  Admiral  Drayton  1 
Who  never  smell'd  powder,  nor  handled  a  rope ; 
Yet  infallible  more  than  Lord  Peter  the  Pope, 
Who  makes  flesh  of  his  bread  and  blood  of  his  wine ; 
Whilst  Dray  on  of  schobners  makes  ships  of  the  line: 
Makes  all  laws  of  Mechanics  and  Nature  knock  under; 
Can  cram  in  an  egg-shell  a  twenty-four  pounder  f^ 
Can  burn  in  an  instant  the  whole  British  navy ; 
And  eat  up  an  army  without  sauce  or  gravy ! 


I  I 


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1 


SKINNER'S  WELCOME. 

[This  playful  parody  was  written  in  February,  1776,  by  John 
Tabor  Kempe,  attorney-general  of  New  York,  who  had  taken  refuge 
on  the  Asia  man-of-war,  to  welcome  Cortlandt  Skinner,  attorney- 
general  of  New  Jersey,  who  was  driven  to  the  same  step.  Mr. 
Sal);i.3's  Loyalists  contains  sketches  of  these  gentlemen.  The  late 
William  Rawle,  Esq.,  of  this  city,  who,  in  1778,  was  reading  law  at 
New  York  in  the  office  of  Mr.  Kempe,  speaks  of  him  as — "  a  man 
whom  I  admire  more  and  more  every  day.  Understanding,  learn- 
ing, generosity,  sensibility,  and  courage,  distinguish  him.  He  is 
the  tenderest  of  brothers,  the  most  aflfectionate  husband  and  father. 
As  a  lawyer,  distinguished  equally  for  skill  and  integrity ;  as  a  gen- 
tleman, remarkable  for  his  politeness  ;  as  a  friend,  beloved  for  his 
sincerity." — I  am  not  aware  that  these  verses  have  ever  before 
been  printed.] 


Welcome  1  welcome,  brother  Tory, 
To  this  merry  floating  place : 
I  came  here  a  while  before  ye ; 
Coming  here  is  do  disgrace. 
Freedom  finds  a  safe  retreat  here, 
On  the  bosom  of  the  wave : 
You  she  now  invites  to  meet  her; 
Welcome  then,  thou  tory  brave  I 


62 


LOYALIST    POETRY. 


4 


As  you  serve,  like  us  the  King,  Sir, 
In  a  hammock  you  must  lay : 
Better  far  'tis  so  to  swing,  Sir, 
Than  to  swing  another  way. 
Tho'  we've  not  dry  land  to  walk  on. 
The  quarter  deck  is  smooth  to  tread : 
Hear  how  fast,  while  we  are  talking, 
Barron  trips  it  over  head.''° 


Should  vile  whigs  come  here  to  plunder, 
Quick  we'll  send  them  whence  they  came : 
They  soon  should  hear  the  Asia  thunder, 
And  see  the  Phoenix  in  a  flame. 
Neptune's  gallant  sons  befriend  us. 
While  at  anchor  here  we  ride ; 
Britain's  wooden  walls  defend  us, 
Britain's  glory  and  her  pride. 


LIBERTY'S  CHOICE: 


OB, 


THE  RIVAL  SUITORS. 

[From  Oaine'a  New  York  Gazette,  Deo.  23,  1776.  Its  oooasion 
seems  to  have  been  the  proclamation  of  Nov.  30,  1776,  by  General 
William  Howe  and  his  brother  the  Earl,  inviting  the  Americans  to 
submission;  but  threatening  them  with  vengeance  should  they 
persist  in  resistance.] 

Fair  Liberty  came  o'er 

Through  her  Britannia's  aid, 
And  on  this  savage  shore 

With  sweet  complacence  stray'd : 
Britannia's  standard  was  her  own ; 
For  Liberty  by  her  was  known. 


Happy  she  liv'd  awhile, 

And  all  the  welkin  round 
Was  jocund  in  her  smile, 
And  rang  with  gladdest  sound : 
Her  swains  increas'd  through  ev'ry  Year, 
And  bless'd  the  hand  that  plac'd  her  here. 


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It 


64  LOYALIST    POETRY. 

Joy  never  beat  so  high 

In  her  Britannid'a  breast 
As  when  fair  Liberty 
Appear'd  so  much  caress'd : 
Defence  with  gen'rous  hand  she  gave, 
And  conqner'd  ev'ry  adverse  slave. 

At  length  three  Suitors  came, 

To  take  her  for  a  Bride : 
Presented  each  their  Claim, 
And  scorn'd  to  be  denied : 
Each  thought  himself  supremely  sure 
To  catch  the  Maiden  in  his  Lure. 

With  Names  of  diff'rent  Sound, 

All  three  were  near  of  Kin ; 
And  fled  Britannia's  Ground 
Because  they  could  not  win 
Her  Crown,  her  Mitre  and  her  Trade, 
And  ev'ry  Bound  of  Law  invade. 


I    i 


John  Presbyter  was  first, 
And,  with  a  rank  Grimace 

All  Opposition  curst 
Beyond  the  Help  of  Grace : 


I   ! 


liberty's  onoioE. 

lie  Bishops  pass'd  to  IT  ell  alive : — 
That  be  on  Earth  might  better  thrive. 

Though  Honour  to  the  King 
God  strictly  has  enjoin'd; 
John  said,  'Twas  no  such  Thing, 
For  God  had  chang'd  his  Mind : 
That  now  he'd  prove  it  just  and  right 
To  kill  the  King;  and,  ergo,  fight. 

"  Fair  Maiden,  thou  art  mine," 

Quoth  John,  "I  take  my  Vow; 
"  For  I  have  Right  divine, 
"To  which  all  Flesh  should  bowl" 
The  Maiden  turu'd  her  Head  aside. 
Hating  his  sly  Deceit  and  Pride. 

Will  Democrach  came  next, 

Who  swore  all  Men  were  ev'n ; 
And  seem'd  to  be  quite  vex't 
That  there's  a  King  in  Heav'n : 
Will  curst  the  hilly  Country  round, 
Because  it  made — unequal  Ground. 

It  gave  him  vast  Surprize 
That  Beasts,  and  Birds,  and  Fishes 


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66  LOYALIST    POETRY. 

Were  not  form'd  of  a  Size 

Like  Wedgwood'fl  earthen  Dishes : 
With  wise  Afphonso,  he'd  have  taught 
His  Ood  t'  have  made  things,  "as  he  ought." 


,1^ 


To  him  the  Virgin  said, 

"  That  on  an  equal  Claim 
"If  she  no  Diff'rence  made, 
"lie  none  could  justly  blame. 
"  But  yet  she  could  not  bear  the  Rule 
"Of  ev'ry  vulgar  Knave  or  Fool." 

Though  last  in  his  Pretence, 

Brisk  Nathan  Smuggle  cnme  i*" 
Yet  for  sound  Impudence 
He  had  as  good  a  Claim. 
Urg'd  by  illicit  Spirit's  Fire, 
Nathan  profess'd  his  warm  Desire. 

Resenting  with  Disdain 

The  Plea  of  such  a  Brute, 
She  told  him,  "  'Twas  in  vain 
To  teaze  her  with  his  Suit." 
The  Rascal  turn'd  about,  and  swore 
That  Liberty  was  but  a . 


liberty's  onoioi. 


67 


He  veaw^d,  a  Cask  of  Ram, 
Or  contraband  Molasses, 
Was  better  worth  at  home 
Than  twenty  such  nice  Lasses : 
Yet  still  he  felt  an  angry  Pride, 
Because  so  perfectly  denied. 

Ho  therefore  told  the  Town, 

That  the  pert  Minx  was  free ; 
And  to  each  Scoundrel  known. 
And  ev'ry  dirty  Ife; 
That  she  imported  rank  Disease, 
And  swarm'd  with  "Vermin,"  Bugs,  and  Fleas. 


Each  -  and  Rogue  re-told 

Our  Nathan's  lying  Tale, 
And  ev'ry  Dunce  "felt  bold" 
At  the  poor  Girl  to  rail : 
In  short,  to  act  the  basest  Shame, 
To  Slavery  they  chang'd  her  Name. 


Britannia  heard  the  News 
Of  her  dear  Sister's  Fate ; 

But,  wond'ring  at  th'  Abuse 
And  undeserved  Hate ; 


I 


68  LOYALIST    POETRY. 

She  mildly  ask'd,  "Who  states  a  Cause 
Against  my  Liberty  and  Laws  ?  " 

John  answer'd,  "Thon  art  prond, 

Britannia,  mad,  and  rich :" 
Will,  d — d  her,  with  his  Croud, 

And  call'd  her,  "  Tyrant ." 

While  Nathan  his  Effusions  bray'd, 
And  veaw^d  "  She  ruiu'd  all  his  Trade." 


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This  heard,  her  gen'rous  Mind 

WitL  Indignation  fir'd ; 
Her  warlike  Sons  combin'd, 
By  mutual  Fame  inspir'd; 
She  bade  their  antient  Ardor  rouze 
Conducted  by  her  fav'rite  Howes. 


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"Go,  Sons,"  said  she, — "and  show 

"That  Liberty  I  love: 
"And  teach  her  Fo'jb  to  know 
"Their  Deeds  I  disapprove. 
"Patient,  to  Reason  make  Appeal 
"  Ere  ye  my  awful  Vengeance  deal. 

"While  Error  ye  reclaim, 
"Let  ev'ry  Foe  per  cive 


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"That  none,  who  wound  my  Fame, 
"  Without  my  Terrors  live : 
"  And  that  my  Thunders  can  be  hurl'd 
"  For  Liberty  around  the  World  1 " 


EPIGRAM 

OS  TUE  MOTTO  OP  A  CONTINENTAL  TWO-DOLLAR  BILL:  "THIBrLATIO  DITAT" 
THRASHINQ  MAKES  RICH. 

[From  Towne's  Evening  Post,  Feb.  19, 1778 :  Signed  A  Maryland 
Loyalist.'i 

That  thrashing  makes  rich  the  Congress  do  know. 
Or  else  on  their  money  they  would  not  say  so ; 
But  what  kind  of  thrashing  they  do  not  explain, 
Whether  beat  by  the  English,  or  beating  out  grain : 
And  since  we're  left  dark,  we  may  fairly  conclude 
That  both  will  enrich  them,  and  both  do  them  good. 


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^  Song. 

WHOTB  IN  THE  SPE.iViit  OP  THE  TEAa  1776. 

Tune:  "  Nancy  Dawson." 
[From  Towno  8  Evening  Post :  No.  435.] 

Ye  Tories  all  rejoice  and  sing 
Success  to  George  our  gracious  king; 
The  faithful  subjects  tribute  bring 

And  execrate  the  Congress. 

These  hardy  knaves  and  stupid  fools ; 
Some  apish  and  pragmatic  mules ; 
Some  servile  acquiescing  tools ; 

These,  these  compose  the  Congre^. 

When  Jove  resolv'd  to  send  a  curse, 
And  all  the  woes  of  life  rehearse ; 
Not  plague,  not  famine,  but  much  worse ; 
He  curs'd  us  with  a  Congress. 


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THE    CONGRESS. 

Then  peace  forsook  this  hapless  shore ; 
Then  cannons  blaz'd  with  horrid  roar ; 
We  hear  of  blood,  death,  wounds  and  gore ; 
The  offspring  of  the  Congress. 

Imperial  Rome  from  scoundrels  rose; 
Her  grandeur's  hail'd  in  verse  and  prose; 
Venice  the  dregs  of  sea  compose ; 

So  sprung  the  mighty  Congress. 

When  insects  vile  emerge  to  light, 
They  take  their  short  inglorious  flight. 
Then  sink  again  to  native  night : 

An  emblem  of  the  Congress. 

With  freemen's  rights  they  wanton  play ; 
At  their  commanc*   we  fast  and  pray; 
With  worthless  paper  they  us  pay ; 

A  fine  device  of  Congress. 

With  poverty  and  dire  distress, 
With  standing  armies  us  oppress ; 
Whole  troops  to  Pluto  swiftly  press, 

As  victims  to  the  Congress. 


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Time  serving  priests  to  zealots  preach, 
Who  king  and  parliament  impeach ; 
Seditious  lessons  to  us  teach 

At  the  command  of  Congress. 

Good  Lord  1  disperse  this  venal  tribe ; 
Their  doctrine  let  no  fools  imbibe; 
Let  Balaam  no  more  asses  ride 

Nor  burdens  bear  to  Congress. 


With  puffs,  and  flams,  and  gasconade, 
With  stupid  jargon,  they  bravade : 
We  transports  take — Quebec  invade — 

With  laurels  crown  the  Congress. 

Our  mushroom  champions  they  dragoon ; 

We  cry  out  hero,  not  poltroon ; 

The  next  campaign  we'll  storm  the  moon, 

And  there  proclaim  the  Congress. 

In  shades  below,  Montgomery's  ghost 
Is  welcom'd  to  the  Stygian  coast ; 
Congenial  traitors  see  and  boast 

Th'  unhappy  dupe  of  Congress. 


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Old  Catiline,  and  Cromwell  too, 
Jack  Cade,  and  his  seditious  crew, 
Hail  brother  rebel  at  first  view. 

And  hope  to  meet  the  Congress. 

The  world's  amaz'd  to  see  the  pest 
The  tranquil  land  with  wars  infest ; 
Britannia  puts  them  to  the  test. 

And  tries  the  strength  of  Congress. 

O  goddess,  hear  our  hearty  prayers ; 
Confound  the  villains  by  the  ears ; 
Disperse  the  plebeians — try  the  peers; 
And  execute  the  Congress. 

See,  see,  our  hope  begins  to  dawn ; 
Bold  Carleton  scours  the  northern  lawn ; 
The  sons  of  faction  sigh  forlorn ; 

Dejected  is  the  Congress. 

Clinton,  Burgoyne,  and  gallanl.  Howe, 
Will  soon  reward  our  condt  "t  true. 
And  to  each  traitor  give  his  due ; 

Perdition  waits  the  Congress. 


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See  noble  Danmore  keeps  his  post ; 
Maraades  and  ravages  the  coast ; 
Despises  Lee  and  all  bis  host, 

That  hair  braia  tool  of  Congress. 


There's  Washington  and  all  his  men— 
Where  Howe  had  one,  the  goose  had  ten — 
March'd  up  the  hill,  and  down  again ; 

And  sent  returns  to  Congress. 


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Prepare,  prepare,  my  friends  prepare, 
For  scenes  of  blood,  the  field  of  war ; 
To  royal  standard  we'll  repair. 

And  curse  the  haughty  Congress. 


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Huzza  1  Huzza !  we  thrice  huzza  1 
Return  peace,  harmony,  and  law  1 
Restore  such  times  as  once  we  saw 

And  bid  adieu  to  Congress. 


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TO  DAVID  KITTENHOUSE. 

[From  Towne's  Pennsylvania  Evening  Post,  Deo.  2, 1777.  Rit- 
tenhouse  is  attacked  by  Cobbett  with  some  wit  and  more  bitterness 
in  Porcupine's  Works,  i.  138,  iv.  361.] 

Meddle  not  with  state  aflfairs; 
Keep  acquaintance  with  the  stars ; 

For  there  thy  genius  lies. 
Science,  David,  is  thy  line : 
Warp  not  nature's  great  design, 

If  thou  to  fame  would'st  rise. 


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Then  follow  learned  Newton  still : 
Trust  me,  mischievous  Machiavel 

Thou'lt  find  a  dreary  coast; 
Where  damp'd  the  philosophic  fire, 
Neglected  genius  will  retire, 

And  all  thy  fame  be  lost. 

Politics  will  spoil  the  man 
Form'd  for  a  more  exalted  plan : 
Great  nature  bids  thee  rise 


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LOYALIST    POETRY. 

To  pour  fair  science  on  our  age, 
To  shine  amidst  tli'  historic  page, 
And  half  uufold  the  skies ! 

But  if  thou  crush  this  vast  design, 
And  in  the  politician's  line 

With  wild  ambition  soar ; 
Oblivion  shall  entomb  thy  name, 
And  from  the  rolls  of  future  fame 

Thou'lt  fall,  to  rise  no  more. 


ON   THE    SNAKE 

DEPICTED  AT  THE  HEAD  OP  SOME  AMERICAN  NEWSPAPEE8. 

[Prom  Rivington's  New  York  Gazetteer,  Aug.  25,  1774.  The 
whig  papera  generally  at  this  time  adopted  for  a  headpiece,  a  snake 
broken  into  parts  representing  the  several  colonies,  with  the  motto 
"  Unite  or  Die."] 

Ye  sons  of  Sedition,  hovr  comes  it  to  pass 
That  America's  typ'd  by  a  Snake — in  the  grass  ? 
Don't  you  think  'tis  a  scandalous,  saucy  reflection, 
That  merits  the  soundest,  severest  correction  ? 
New-England's  the  Head,  too; — New-England's  abns'd; 
For  the  Head  of  the  Serpent  we  know  should  be  bruis'd  1 


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AMERICA. 

[Addressed  to  Dean  Tucker,  and  attributed  to  Soame  Jenyns. 
The  Dean's  plan  was  to  let  the  colonies  go,  rather  than  fight  for 
them:  see  his  Humble  Address,  &c.  (Lond.  1775).  From  Penn. 
Ledger,  Feb.  21, 1778.] 

Crown'd  be  the  man  with  lasting  praise, 

"Who  first  contriv'd  the  pin, 
To  loose  mad  horses  from  ths  chaise 

And  save  the  necks  within. 

See  how  they  prance,  and  bound,  and  skip, 

And  all  controul  disdain  I 
They  bid  defiance  to  the  whip, 

And  tear  the  silken  rein. 


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Awhile  we  try  if  art  or  strength 

Are  able  to  prevail : 
But  hopeless,  when  we  find  at  length 

That  all  our  efforts  fail ; 

With  ready  foot  the  spring  we  press ; 
Out  jumps  the  magic  plug; 
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Then,  disengag'tl  from  all  distress 
We  sit  quite  safe  and  snug. 

The  pamper'd  steeds,  their  freedom  gaiu'd, 

Run  off  full  speed  together; 
But  having  no  plan  ascertain'd, 

They  run  they  know  not  whither. 

Boys  who  love  mischief,  and  of  course 

Enjoying  the  disaster,     • 
Bawl,  stop  'em  I  stop  'em  I  'till  they're  hoarse ; 

But  mean  to  drive  'em  faster. 

Each  claiming  now  his  nat'ral  right 

Scorns  to  obey  his  brother : 
So  they  proceed  to  kick  and  bite 

And  worry  one  another.  . 


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Hungry  at  last,  and  blind  and  lame, 
Bleeding  at  nose  and  eyes. 

By  suff'rings  grown  extremely  tame, 
And  by  experience  wise; 

With  bellies  full  of  liberty, 
But  void  of  oats  and  hay 


EnaRAM. 

They  both  sneak  back ;  their  folly  sec ; 
And  run  no  more  awny. 

Let  all  who  view  th'  instructive  scene, 

And  pritronize  the  plan, 
Give  thanks  to  Glo'ster's  honest  Dean, 

For,  Tucker,  thou'rt  the  man ! 


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SAID  TO  BE  WROTK  BY  THE  LATE  REBKL  OENEKAL  LEE  ON  HIMSELF. 

[From  Rivington'a  Gazette,  Deo.  14,1782:  whore  it  is  horribly 
luispriuted.] 

SoRS  do  I'aveugle  erreur  dont  voua  etes  seduit, 
Pour  voir  en  quel  etat  le  sort  vous  h,  reduit ; 
Votre  pais  vous  hait:  le  Congros  est  sans  foi ; 
Contre  tant  des  ennemis  que  vous  reste-t-il  ? — Moi ! 

IN  ENGLISH. 

Seduc'd  by  error,  to  misfortune  born; 
Deceiv'd  by  Congress,  made  my  country's  scorn. 
While  foes  oppress  me,  friends  I  seek  in  vain ; 
What  hopes  are  left — Yes,  I  myself  remain. 


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Aie:  Hark!  hark!  the  joy-inipiring  Horn! 

[From  Rivington's  Gazette,  Deo.  23, 1778.  The  allasions  to  the 
night-surprises  of  Wayne's  and  of  Baylor's  commands  need  no  ex- 
planation.] 

Hark  1  hark  I  the  bugle's  lofty  sound, 
Which  makes  the  woods  and  rocks  around 

Repeat  the  martial  strain, 
Proclaims  the  light-arm'd  British  troops 
Advance Behold,  rebellion  droops ; 

She  hears  the  sound  with  pain. 

She  sees  their  glitt'ring  arms  with  fear ; 
Their  nodding  plumes  approaching  near ; 

Her  gorgon  head  she  hides. 
She  flees,  in  vain,  to  shun  such  foes, 
For  Wayne,  or  hapless  Baylor  knows 

How  swift  their  vengeance  glides. 


XPIQRAM. 

The  nimble  messenger  of  Jove         i  -^ 
On  earth  alights  not  from  above 

With  step  so  light  as  theirs : 
Hence,  they  h&ve  feathered  cap«,' and  wings, 
And  weapons  which  have  keener  stings 

Than  that  gay  Hermes  bears. 

A  myrtle  garland,  with  the  vine, 
Venns  and  Bacchas  shall  entwine, 

About  their  brows  to  place ; 
As  types  of  love  and  joy,  beneath 
The  well-eam'd,  budding  laurel-wreath 

Which  shades  each  hero's  face. 


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OR  eiB  WIIiLUM  HOWB. 


[I  find  this  in  Porcupine's  Works,  1.  377 ;  but  it  evidently  dates 
back  to  the  rerolutionarj  war,  and  probably  to  the  period  of  the 
Misohianza  at  Philadelphia.] 

When  mighty  C^sar  triumphs  o'er  his  foes. 
Three  words  concise  his  gallant  acts  disclose ; 
But  Howe,  more  brief,  comprises  his  in  one. 
And  vidt,  tells  us  all  that  he  has  done. 


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INFANTRY. 

'  BT  A  SOLDIER.  \ 

[From  Rivington:  Jan.  23, 1779.  The  Light-Bobs  seems  to  be  a 
familiar  name  for  the  Light  Infantry.  One  of  Hook's  characters  in 
Gamey  Married  thus  uses  it,  with  the  allusion  to  the  wings  or 
epaulets  mentioned  in  the  foregoing  song.] 

Tune  :  Over  the  Hills  and  far  away. 

Soldier,  while  the  flowing  bowl 
Warms  your  heart  and  cheers  your  soul, 
Let  me  to  your  mind  recall 
Scenes  familiar  to  us  all ; 
In  the  gloomy  forest's  shade, 
Where  your  weary  limbs  you've  laid, 
Or  your  parched  mouth  applied, 
To  the  cool  refreshing  tide. 

Think  you  see  the  nights  again 
When,  amid  the  rattling  rain, 
Some  of  Britain's  light-arm'd  troops 
Sit  around  their  fire  in  groups ; 
Some,  in  wigwams  seeking  rest, 
With  the  toiling  march  opprest, 


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Sleep  the  stormy  night  away,  ^     ''■  ] 

Heedless  of  the  coming  day. 


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Listen  to  that  swelling  noise  I 
'Tis  the  bugle's  warlike  voice, 
Which,  in  accents  loud  and  clear. 
Warns  us  that  the  foe  is  near. 
War  to  noble  minds  has  charms:— 
See  the  Light-Bobs  spring  to  arms. 
Form,  and  march  without  delay. 
Pleased  the  summons  to  obey. 


TcNE  :  Away  to  tJie  Copse. 

Behold  with  what  ardor  to  action  they  press ; 

They  dash  into  cover  with  glee. 
Insulted  Britannia  they  wish  to  redress, 

And  set  sad  America  free. 
Thro'  thickets  and  marshes  they  patiently  go, 

Till  day-light  announces  the  morn. — 
Assail'd  by  a  volley,  to  close  with  the  foe 

They  rush,  at  the  sound  of  the  horn. 
Past  many  a  bullet  and  sulphur'ous  cloud. 

They  forward  to  conquest  proceed : 
Now  flight's  the  recourse  of  the  fanatic  crowd ; 


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'       The  Britons  parsae  them  with  speed. 
The  boasters,  who  lately  their  prowess  defied, 

And  vowed  to  have  gallantly  stood : 
The  well-pointed  bayonet  humbles  their  pride, 
And  bathes  the  false  rebels  in  blood.     , 
•     , .,  ,'  |..  ,  (      (  ,  ■  i 
Tvnb:  Hosier's  Ghost. 

Mark  yon  wretch,  sabmissive  bending, 

In  whose  features  shame  and  grief 
Mixt  with  terror,  seem  contending : 

That  was  late  a  Rebel  Chief. 
"  Give  me  quarter  1 "  hear  him  crying, 

"  I  beseech  you  on  my  knee  1 
"  I  am  not  prepar'd  for  dying, 

"  Since  my  country's  wrong'd  by  me." 


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"  For  your  vows  and  treaties  breaking 

"  Tho'  your  forfeit  life  should  pay, 
"  Rise — it  is  net  worth  my  taking ;" 

(Hear  the  gen'rous  victor  say) : 
"Give  this  lesson  due  attention 

"  If  you  wou'd  be  truly  free. 
"  Help  to  quell  this  dire  contention 

"  Take  your  country's  part  like  me." 


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We've  shewn  them  full  oft  of  what  stufif  we  are  made : 
As  often,  unmerited  mercy  display'd: 
But  shou'd  they  persist,  we'll  not  vengeance  restrain, 
Bat  probe  to  the  quick  the  approaching  campaign. 
Then  hence  with  all  thread-bare  disputes  for  this  night ; 
To  laugh  there's  a  season,  as  well  as  to  fight. 
And  one  at  a  time  is  enough,  by  my  soul — 
And  so,  brother  Soldier — about  with  the  bowl. 


EPIGRAM 


on  THE  CAFTUBE  OF  OBK.  CHARLES  LEE. 

[Lee  and  Gates  were  both  British-bom,  and  officers  in  the  royal 
army  before  the  war:  indeed  it  was  questionable  at  the  time 
whether  the  first  had  formally  got  rid  of  his  commission,  before 
taking  service  with  America.  His  accession  was  regarded  as  a 
great  advantage  to  our  troops.  He  was  captured  by  the  enemy  in 
Dec.  1V76,  and  placed  in  close  confinement.]  ;_^ 

When  Gates  and  when  Lee  turned  on  Britain  those  brands, 

Which  the  favour  of  Britain  had  placed  in  their  hands ; 

The  Congress  was  glad :  but  its  gladness  is  o'er. 

Its  safety  is  shipwrecked  upon  a  Lee  shore. 

The  rebels  may  tremble;  they  quickly  shall  see 

That  we'll  shut  up  their  Gates  as  we've  shut  up  their  Leef 


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STANZAS. 

WBITTBir  THE  IOtH  OF  UAT,  1776,  BY  AN  EXILE  FBOH  AHEBICA.^' 

To  tliee,  O  God,  by  whom  I  live, 
The  tribute  of  my  soul  to  give, 

On  this  revolving  day ; 
To  thee,  0  God,  my  voice  I  raise, 
To  thee  address  my  grateful  praise, 

And  swell  the  duteous  lay  I 

Now  has  this  orb  unceasing  run 
Its  annual  circuit  round  the  sun. 

Since  when  the  btus  uf  strife. 
Led  by  the  pale  moon's  midnight  ray. 
And  bent  on  mischief,  urg'd  their  way, 

To  seize  my  guiltless  life. 


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At  ease  my  weary  limbs  were  laid ; 
And  slumbers  sweet  around  me  shed 
The  blessings  of  repose : 


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XTnconscioas  of  the  dark  design,  '' 

I  knevr  no  base  intent  was  mine, 
And  therefore  fear'd  no  foes. 

When  straight  an  heaven-directed  yoath, 
Whom  oft  my  lessons  led  to  truth, 

And  honour's  sacred  shrine;      " 
Advancing  quick  before  the  rest, 
With  trembling  tongue  my  ear  addrest. 

Yet  sure  in  voice  divine. 

**  Awake!  awake  1  the  storm  is  nigh.— 
*'  This  instant  rouse, — this  instant  fly, — 

"  The  next  may  be  too  late. 
"  Four  hundred  men,  a  murderous  band, 
"Access  importunate  demand, 

"  And  shake  the  groaning  gate." 

I  wake — ^I  fly — whilst,  loud  and  near, 
Dread  execrations  wound  my  ear, 

And  sore  my  soul  dismay. 
One  avenue  alone  remain'd — 
A  epeedy  passage  there  I  gain'd. 

And  wing'd  my  rapid  way. 


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That  moment,  all  the  farioas  throng, 
An  entrance  forcing,  pour'd  along, 

And  fill'd  m;  peaceful  cell : 
Where  harmless  jest,  and  modest  mirth, 
And  cheerful  laughter  oft  had  birth, 

And  jo  J  was  wont  to  dwell.  n 

Not  ev'n  the  Mnse's  hallow'd  fane 
Their  lawless  fury  can  restrain. 

Or  check  their  headlong  haste : 
They  push  them  from  their  solemn  seats ; 
Profane  their  long-rever'd  retreats ; 

And  lay  their  Findus  waste.      ' 


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Not  yet  content,  but  hoping  still 
Their  impious  purpose  to  fulfil. 

They  force  each  yielding  door : 
And  while  their  curses  load  my  head, 
With  piercing  steel  they  probe  the  bed. 

And  thirst  for  human  gore- 
Meanwhile,  along  the  sounding  shore. 
Where  Hudson's  waves  incessant  roar, 

I  work  my  weary  way ; 


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STANZAS. 

And  skirt  tho  windings  of  the  tide, 
My  faithful  pupil  by  my  side ; 

Nor  wish  th'  approach  of  day. 

At  length,  ascending  from  tho  beach, 
With  hopes  reviv'd,  by  morn  I  reach 

The  good  Palemon's  cot ; 
Where,  free  from  terror  and  affright, 
I  calmly  wait  the  coming  night, 

My  every  fear  forgot. 

'Twas  then  I  scal'd  the  vessel's  side, 
Where  all  the  amities  abide 

That  mortal  worth  can  boast ; 
Whence,  with  a  longing,  lingering  view, 
I  bid  my  much  lov'd  York  adieu, 

And  sought  my  native  coast. 


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Now,  all  compos'd,  from  danger  far, 
J  hear  no  more  the  din  of  war ; 

Nor  shudder  at  alarms : 
But  safely  sink  each  night  to  rest, — 
No  Malice  rankling  through  my  breast,- 

In  Freedom's  fostering  arms. 


90  L0TALI8T    FOXTBY. 

Tho'  Btripp'd  of  most  the  world  admires, 
Yet  torn  by  few  ontam'd  desires, 

I  rest  in  calm  content ; 
And  humbly  hope  a  gracious  Lord 
Again  those  blessings  will  afford, 

Which  once  his  bounty  lent. 


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Yet  still  for  many  a  faithfal  friend. 
Shall  day  by  day  my  voice  ascend 

Thy  dw^jUing,  0  my  God  I 
Who,  steady  still  in  Virtue's  cause, 
Despising  Faction's  mimic  laws. 

The  Paths  of  Peace  have  trod. 

Yet  not  for  Friends  alone — ^for  All, 
Too  prone  to  heed  Sedition's  call. 

Hear  me,  indulgent  Heaven  I 
"  0  may  they  cast  their  arms  away, — 
"  To  Thee  and  George  submission  pay,- 

"  Bepent  and  bo  forgiven  1" 


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AN  IRREGULAR  ODE  TO  PEACE. 

[From  the  Pennsylvania  Ledger,  March  14, 1778.  Prohably  writ- 
ten at  Philadelphia,  while  occupied  by  the  British,  by  Major  James 
Campbell,  of  the  42nd  Highlanders.] 

0  THOU  I  who  smil'st  no  more 

Oa  these  once  happy  plains ; 

Ah !  whither  art  thou  fled 
Fair  Peace?  Is  it  to  Britain's  happy  shore, 

Where  Plenty,  with  content  and  freedom  reigns  ? 
Or  to  the  silent  mansions  of  the  dead  ? 

If  yet  on  earth  thou  deign'st  to  move, 
From  that  blest  region,  cast  a  pitying  eye 

On  this  forsaken  land,  which  else  must  prove 
A  scene  of  horror,  blood,  and  cruelty. 


Lo !  the  poor  hind,  whose  former  life 
Was  always  spent  in  dull  domestic  care, 

Now  sallies  forth,  to  mix  in  horrid  strife 
With  those  whom  nature  taught  him  to  revere  1 

Infatuate  monster!  stay  thy  guilty  hand. 
Nor  raise  the  dagger  'gainst  thy  brother's  breast, 
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LOYALIST    POETEY. 


Lest  all-avenging  heav'o  pursue  the  land 
With  some  new  curse  which  cannot  be  expressed. 


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Behold  the  frantic  widow's  tender  woe; 

When  robb'd  of  him  who  ev'ry  grief  could  charm  I 
No  mortal  near,  not  e'en  a  gen'rous  foe 

To  shelter  her  poor  hapless  head  from  harm. 
Behold  her  now,  all  arm'd  with  greater  fears ! 

Her  infant  offspring  clinging  to  her  breast ; 
They  cry  for  bread,  and  catch  the  trickling  tears 

Fast  flowing  from  those  eyes  where  pleasure  once  did  rest. 

But  hark !  the  raging  crowd,  whose  furious  sway 

Laid  waste  this  fair,  Hesperian  soil. 
With  horror  seiz'd,  now  curse  the  fatal  day 

On  which  they  first  began  the  civil  broil. 
"  'Tis  past  (they  say),  those  happy  days  are  gone 

"When  Peace  and  Plenty  visited  our  shore : 
"  Too  fatal  error !    Are  we  then  undone  ? 

"And  must  we  see  those  happy  days  no  more? 


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"  And  thou,  fair  Freedom !  once  our  joy  and  boast, 
"  Our  greatest  good ;  alas  I  how  art  thou  wrong'd ! — 

"  These  upstart  tyrants  of  our  ruin'd  coast 
"  Our  wishes  flatter'd,  and  our  doubts  prolong'd ; 


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AN  IRREGULAR  ODE  TO  PEACE. 


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"  But  now  we  see  the  proud  Usurpers'  aim :  > 

"  Tho'  Liberty's  dear  name  is  heard  each  hour, 

"  The  poor  man's  property  and  good  man's  fame 
"Alike  are  victioDito  their  lawless  pow'f.  ;  j* 

"  Return  then,  heav'nly  Peace!  and  grace  those  plains 

"  Where  whilom  thou  with  pleasure  did'st  reside : 
" Return  and  bless  thy  poor  deluded  swains; 

"And  may  each  genuine  virtue  be  thy  guide." 
Thus  sigh'd  the  multitude — 0  hear  their  pray'r 

Bright  Maid !  at  thy  divine  command, 
The  shepherd  swain  shall  tend  his  fleecy  care, 

And  plenty  smile  again  upon  the  land. 

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THE  AMERICAN  VICA&  OF  BRAY. 

[From  Rivington,  June  30, 1779,  collated  with  a  MS.  of  the  pe- 
riod. The  Bubjeot  of  this  piece  is  said  to  be  Dr.  Wm.  Smith,  of 
Philadelphia :  but,  if  so,  many  of  the  hits  are  untrue  as  well  as  ill- 
natured.] 

When  Royal  George  ral'd  o'er  this  land, 

And  loyalty  no  harm  meant, 
For  Chnrch  and  King  I  made  a  stand 

And  so  I  got  preferment. 
I  still  opposed  all  party  tricks 

For  reasons  I  thought  clear  ones ; 
And  swore  it  was  their  politics, 
To  make  ns  Presbyterians. 

And  this  is  law  I  will  maintain 

Until  my  dying  day,  Sir; 
Let  whatsoever  King  will  reign 
I'll  be  a  Vicar  of  Bray,  Sir. 


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When  Stamp  Act  pass'd  the  Parliament, 
To  bring  some  Grist  to  Mill,  Sir, 


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THB    AMERICAN    VIOAB    07    BRAY. 

To  back  it  was  mj  firm  intent ; 

But  soon  there  came  repeal,  Sir. 
I  quickly  join'd  the  common  cry, 

That  we  should  all  be  slaves,  Sir ; 
The  House  of  Commons  was  a  sty ; 

The  King  and  Lords  were  knaves,  Sir. 

Now  all  went  smooth,  as  smooth  could  be; 

I  strutted,  and  look'd  big.  Sir : 
And  when  they  laid  a  tax  on  tea, 

I  was  believ'd  a  Whig,  Sir : 
I  laugh'd  at  all  the  vain  pretence 

Of  taxing  at  this  distance, 
And  swore  before  I'd  pay  my  pence, 

I'd  make  a  firm  resistance. 

A  Congress  now  was  quickly  call'd, 

That  we  might  act  together. 
I  thought  that  Britain  would,  appall'd. 

Be  glad  to  make  fair  weather. 
And  soon  repeal  th'  obnoxious  Bill 

As  she  had  done  before,  Sir ; 
That  we  might  gather  wealth  at  will, 

And  so  be  taxed  no  more,  Sir. 
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L0TALI8T    POXTBT. 

Bat  Britain  was  not  quickly  scar'd ; 

She  told  another  story : 
When  Independence  was  declared 

I  fignr'd  as  a  Tory ; 
Declar'd  it  was  Rebellion  base 

To  take  np  arms — I  cars'd  it. 
For  faith  it  seem'd  a  settled  case 

That  we  should  soon  be  worsted. 

When  penal  laws  were  past  by  vote 

I  thought  the  test  a  grievance : 
Yet  sooner  than  I'd  lose  a  groat, 

I  swore  the  state  allegiance, 
The  thin  disguise  could  hardly  pass, 

For  I  was  much  suspected : 
I  felt  myself  much  like  the  Ass 

In  Lion's  skin  detected. 

The  French  alliance  now  came  forth : 
The  Papists  flock'd  in  shoals,  Sir. 

Friseurs,  Marquis,  Valets  of  Birth, 
And  Priests  to  save  our  souls.  Sir. 

Our  "  good  Ally"  with  tow'ring  wing, 
Embrac'd  the  flatt'ring  hope,  Sir, 


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THB    AMERICAN    VIOAR    OV    BRAT. 

That  we  shoald  own  him  for  oar  King, 
And  then  invite  the  Pope,  Sir. 

When  Howe  with  dram  and  great  parade 

March'd  through  this  famons  town,  Sir, 
I  cried,  "may  fame  his  temples  shade 

With  laurels  for  a  crown.  Sir." 
With  zeal  I  swore  to  make  amends 

To  good  old  Constitution : 
And  drank  confusion  to  the  friends 

Of  our  late  Revolution. 

But  poor  Burgoyne's,  announced  my  fate : 

The  Whigs  began  to  glory : 
I  now  bewaiPd  my  wretched  state 

That  e'er  I  was  a  Tory. 
By  night  the  British  left  the  shore 

Nor  car'd  for  friends  a  fig,  Sir; 
I  turn'd  the  cat  in  pan  once  more. 

And  so  became  a  Whig,  Sir. 


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I  calPd  the  army  butch'ring  dogs ; 

A  bloody  tyrant  King,  Sir; 
The  Commons,  Lords,  a  set  of  rogues 

That  all  deserv'd  to  swing,  Sir; 


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LOTALIST    POETRY. 


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Since  Fate  has  made  us  great  and  free, 

And  Providence  can't  falter ; 
So  Cong,  till  death  my  King  shall  be, 
Unless  the  times  shall  alter. 

For  this  is  law  I  will  maintain 

Until  mj  dying  day,  Sir ; 
Let  whatsoever  King  will  reign, 
I'll  be  a  Vicar  of  Bray,  Sir. 


EXTEMPORE    VERSES. 

[From  Rivington's  Rojal  Gazette,  Jan.  5,  1780 :  on  occasion  of 
the  general  arming  in  Europe  and  America  against  Great  Britain.] 

Ohootaws,  Chickasaws,  and  Catawbas, 

Are  all  engag'd  to  fight  us : 
Keep  off,  you  Mynheers  with  your  yaws. 

And  England's  guns  shall  right  us. 

We  mind  not  Monsieur's  copper  lace. 

Nor  solemn  Don  in  cloak; 
Once  let  us  meet  them  face  to  face, 

And  fighting  is  no  joke. 

Three  cheers  for  England's  weal  we  give. 

And  pour  the  broadside  in ; 
The  wretch  that  is  not  fit  to  live. 

To  kill  can  be  no  sin. 


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Aib:  ^ Tit  not  yet  Day. 

[From  Birington's  Gazette:  Jan.  2, 1779.] 

What  though  last  year  be  past  and  gone, 

Why  should  we  grieve  or  moarn  abont  it? 
As  good  a  year  is  now  began, 
And  better  too,  let  no  one  doubt  it. 

'Tis  New- Year's  morn ;  why  should  we  part  ? 
Why  not  enjoy  what  Heaven  has  sent  us  ? 
Let  wine  expand  the  social  heart, 
Let  friends,  and  mirth,  and  wine  content  os. 

War's  rude  alarms  disturb'd  last  year ; 

Our  country  bled  and  wept  around  us ; 
But  this  each  honest  heart  shall  cheer ; 

A  nd  peace  and  plenty  shall  surround  us. 
'Tis  New- Year's  mom,  &c. 


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100  LOYALIST    POITRT. 

Last  year  King  Congo,  through  the  land, 
Display'd  bis  thirteen  stripes  to  fright  us; 

But  George's  power,  in  Clinton't  hand, 
In  this  New- Year  shall  surely  right  us. 
'Tis  New-Year's  morn,  &c. 


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Last  year  saw  many  honest  men 

Torn  from  each  dear  and  sweet  connection : 
But  this  shall  see  them  home  again. 

And  happy  in  their  King's  protection. 
'Tis  New- Year's  mom,  &c. 


Last  year  vain  Frenchmen  brav'd  our  coasts. 
And  baffled  Howe,  and  scap'd  from  Byron  ; 

But  this  shall  bring  their  vanquish'd  hosts 

To  crouch  beneath  the  British  Lion. 

'Tis  New- Year's  morn,  &c. 

Last  year  rebellion  proudly  stood, 

Elate,  in  her  meridian  glory ; 
But  this  shall  quench  her  pride  in  blood ; 

George  will  avenge  each  martyr'd  Tory. 
'Tis  New- Year's  morn,  &c. 


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Then  bring  US  wine ;  full  bumpers  bring:  I 

Hail  this  New- Year  in  joyful  chorus : 
God  bless  great  Georqe  our  gracious  King, 
And  crush  rebellion  down  before  us. 

'Tis  New- Year's  morh ;  why  should  we  part  ? 
Why  not  enjoy  what  Heaven  has  sent  us  ? 
Let  wine  expand  the  social  heart, 
Let  friends,  and  mirth,  and  wine  content  us. 


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[Prom  Rirington's  Gazette,  No.  236 :  ita  oonneotion  with  the  pre- 
ceding piece  will  be  seen  at  a  glance.] 

RiOITATITK. 

The  Prophet,  as  became  a  Reverend  Seer, 
Has  told  the  glories  of  the  rising  year ; 
The  Priest,  in  turn,  his  function  now  sapplies, 
With  joy  to  make  the  solemn  Sacrifice. 


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(Tdnk  :  How  much  superior  beauty  awet.) 

As  tyrant  power  and  slavish  fear 

To  death  ftre  now  decreed, 
Prepare  to  welcome  this  New- Year, 

And  let  the  victims  bleed. 
First,  Congo  1  come :  thy  robe  of  state 

Put  off,  and  bend  the  knee : 
Receive  the  stroke  1  for  thus  thy  fate 

Shall  set  each  captive  free. 


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Usarping  Balers,  tbrongh  the  land, 

Como  in,  ye  bloody  train  t 
Ye  slaves  of  Congo,  all  disband ; 

Behold  yoar  master  slain  t 
And  now,  pale  Discord,  daemon  fell  1 

Thy  magic  reign  shall  cease ; 
Down,  down  to  thy  own  native  hell, 

And  leave  the  world  to  peace. 

Betnrning  Peace  and  Plenty,  hail  1 

Love  kindles  in  yoar  smile ; 
Here  love  and  nnion  shall  prevail, 

And  o'er  Britannia's  isle ! 
Away  then,  each  intruding  foe  t 

Beware  the  rising  flame  I 
We  still  are  Britons,  and  mil  show 

We  glory  in  the  name ! 


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AliLBaRO. 

TuNK  :  Daphne  in  Midas. 
{If  you  can  caper  as  well  as  you  modulate,  i^c.) 

Thus,  having  buried  the  daemon  of  enmity. 
Hoping  for  peace  on  a  permanent  throne, 

Now  let  us  oflFer,  to  crown  the  solemnity. 
Each  one  a  trifle  or  two  of  his  own. 


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LOYALIST    POETRY. 


If  Spleen  or  avarice  cardie  your  charity, 
Sacrifice  both,  and  let  poverty  dine  I 

If  doubt  or  despondency  check  your  hilarity, 
Drown  them,  at  once,  in  a  bumper  of  wine ! 


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If  you  are  strangers  to  all  these  commodities, 

Have  you  no  follies  or  vices  to  spare  ? 
Then,  I  must  own,  you're  a  queer  set  of  oddities, 

And,  I  presume,  your  example  is  rare  I 
But  here — 'tis  time  I  should  quit  the  Confessional ; 

Jo  triumphe  in  chorus  we  sing  1 
Down  with  all  pride  and  ambition  Congressional ! 

Huzza  for  Clinton  I  and  God  bless  the  King  t 


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MUNGO   CAMPBELL, 

LiBirr.  COLONBL  OP  HIS  majesty's  53rd  bboihbnt  op  foot, 

WHO  OOHM ANDBD  TUB  ATTACK  ON  FOBT  KONTOOMEBr, 

OCTOBBB  6,  1777, 

AMD  AS  Bl  WAS  LBADINO  ON  HIS  TROOPS  TO  THB  BTOBH 

WITH  CALM  INTBBPIDITT 

FBLL  JUST  BEFOBS  TUB  HOUBNT  OF  TICTOBT. 

[From  Robertson's  Royal  PennsylTania  Gazette,  No.  iz.] 

To  check  Rebellion  in  her  mad  career, 
To  tame  the  haughty,  and  the  sad  to  cheer. 
To  vindicate  his  injar'd  Sovereign's  Name, 
To  rescae  Loyalty  from  lawless  Shame, 
Restore  the  blessings  of  a  mild  command 
Of  Ease  and  Plenty  thro'  a  factious  land ; 
His  sword  th'  intrepid  Campbell  drew : — he  fell. 
How  nobly,  Hudson's  echoing  banks  can  tell. 


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106  LOYALIST    POETRY. 

Id  Peace  as  gentle,  as  in  War  rever'd ; 

Lov'd  as  a  Master,  as  a  Soldier  fear'd ; 

Faithful  Domestics  sighing  view'd  his  bier, 

And  hardy  Veterans  drop  the  silent  tear  I 

"  Cease  1"  cries  the  Hero — "  though  in  Battle  slain, 

"  My  Wounds  were  Glory,  and  my  Death  is  Gain." 


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[From  the  Pennsylvania  Ledger,  Deo.  24, 1777:  written  hy  Capt. 
J.  P.  D.  Smyth,  of  the  Queen's  Rangers.''] 


Confinement  hail  1  in  honor's  jastest  canse, 
True  to  our  King,  our  Country,  and  our  Laws ; 
Opposing  anarchy,  sedition,  strife, 
And  every  other  bane  of  social  life. 


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These  Colonies,  of  British  freedom  tir'd, 
Are  by  the  phrensy  of  distraction  fir'd ; 
Bashing  to  arms,  they  madly  urge  their  fate. 
And  levy  war  against  their  Parent  State. 
Surrounding  Nations,  in  amazement,  view 
The  strange  infatuations  they  pursue. 
Virtue  in  tears  deplores  their  fate  in  vain, 
And  Satan  smiles  to  see  disorder  reign : 
The  days  of  Cromwell,  Puritanic  rage, 
Return'd  to  curse  our  more  unhappy  age. 

"We,  Friends  to  freedom,  government,  and  laws, 
Are  deem'd  inimical  unto  their  cause. 


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108     -  LOYALIST    POETRY. 

In  vaalts,  with  bars  and  iron  doors,  conQn'd 
They  hold  oar  persons,  bat  can't  rale  the  mind. 
Act  now  we  cannot,  else  we  freely  woa'd ; 
Resign'd  we  sufiFer  for  the  pablic  good. 


Success  on  earth  sometimes  to  ill  is  given : 
To  brave  misfortune  is  the  gift  of  Heaven. 
What  men  could  do  we  did,  our  cause  to  serve ; 
We  can't  command  success,  but  we'll  deserve. 


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EPIGRAM. 

[Probably  by  R.  Chubb,  of  Philadelphia,  author  of  a  number  of 
loyal  compositions.] 

When  the  Congress  sent  Lincoln  to  Charlestown's  relief. 
We  thought  they  were  fools  to  select  such  a  chief. 
But  the  rebels  were  wiser  perhaps  than  we  think  on, 
For  they  know  that  the  devil  will  watch  over  Lincoln. 


MARY  CAY, 

OR, 

MISS    IN   HER   TEENS. 

AN  OLD  CANTEBBURT  TALE,  FROM  CHAUCER. 

Air  :   Yankee  Doodle. 

[From  Rivington,  Jan.  22,  1780.  The  allusions  are  obvious. 
Mary  Cay,  her  mother,  and  the  theft  of  sugar  plums,  signify  Ame- 
rica, England,  and  the  illicit  colonial  trade.  Sammy  is  Samuel 
Adams,  whose  plans  for  independency  are  referred  to.  Dick  and 
Will  are  the  Howes,  who  are  quietly  reproached  for  their  spirit  of 
concession.  The  bedroom  is  Philadelphia,  the  chief  seat  of  Con- 
gress ;  and  New  York,  the  parlour.  Puff  and  Strutt  are  France  and 
Spain,  and  Clinton  is  "  gallant  Harry."  No  more  of  this  piece  ever 
appeared,  so  far  as  I  can  learn.] 

Good  Neighbours,  if  you'll  give  me  leave, 

I'll  tell  you  such  a  story ! 
'Twill  make  you  laugh,  I  do  believe, 

Or  I'm  au  errand  Tory. 

To  shew  that  Good  from  Evil  comes, 

According  to  the  Scripture, 
When  Mary  Cay  stole  sugar  plums 

You  know  how  Mother  whipp'd  her. 
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She  whipp'd  her  up  and  down  the  houst 
Till  Moll  was  in  a  fluster, 

Yet  swore  she  did  not  care  a  louse 
For  all  her  mother's  bluster. 

For  Molly  counted  full  thirteen, 
And  bundled  now  with  Sammy; 

Who  said  she  ought  to  be  a  Queen, 
And  never  mind  her  Mammy. 


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So  Sam  and  Moll  together  plot, 

To  make  a  stout  resistance ; 
And  from  the  School,  in  short,  they  got  „ 

Some  truants  for  assistants. 

Then  mother  call'd  for  Dick  and  Will 
To  teach  the  wench  her  duty : 

They  drubb'd  her  now  and  then,  but  still 
They  coaxed  her  as  a  beauty. 


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Then  Jack  was  sent  across  the  Pond 
To  take  her  in  the  rear.  Sir : 

But  Dick  and  Will  did  both  abscond — 
We  thought  it  mighty  queer.  Sir ! 


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Yet  Moll  was  now  in  sore  dismay,     • 
And  Sam  was  quite  confounded : 

Till  Jack,  in  want  of  prog,  they  say, 
Was  by  the  mob  surrounded.    . 

Mean-time,  the  sturdy  Dick  and  Will 

Had  only  gone  by  water, 
In  hopes  to  catch — below  the  hill,      - 

This  vixen  of  a  daughter.  \ 


They  gave  her  here  a  cuff  or  two, 
And  fairly  made  the  blood  run, 

And  truly,  after  much  ado, 
They  got  into  her  bed-room. 

Bat  Jack's  disaster  made  a  noise. 
And  all  the  neighbours  heard  it; 

For  Moll  declar'd  her  gallant  boys 
Had  lick'd  him — she  aver'd  it. 


The  folks  around  began  to  stare, 

And  look  at  one  another : 
And,  never  doubt,  but  some  there  were 

That  ow'd  a  grudge  to  mother; 


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Which  Puff",  the  Barber,  disavow'd, 

And  seem'd  amazing  civil ; 
Yet  while  he  chatter'd,  grinn'd,  and  bow'd, 

He  wish'd  her  at  the  devil. 


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And,  snre  enongh,  it  vras  not  long, 
Before  this  Varlet  Shaver 

Protested  Moll  had  sufiFer'd  wrong, 
And  flatter'd  her  behaviour. 


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He  flatter'd  Moll;  she  flatter'd  hira; 

He  vow'd  that  he  would  right  her; 
Yet,  both  resolv'd  to  trick  and  trim — 

'Twas,  who  should  bite  the  biter. 


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Now  Molly  grew  so  very  stout, 
And  therewithal  so  tricky, 

Till  death  she  vow'J  to  hold  it  out, 
In  spite  of  Will  and  Dicky. 

It  would  provoke  a  Quaker's  oath, 
To  see  such  lads  miscarry : 

So  Mother  e'en  dismiss'd  'em  both. 
And  call'd  up  gallant  Harry. 


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MART    CAT. 

To  him  was  left  the  task,  in  short, 
Of  taming  Moll,  the  shrew.  Sir: 

And  truly,  thank  the  Barber  for 't, 
He  found  enough  to  do,  Sir. 

The  House  it  rang  with  noisy  clack. 
Each  prater  turn'd  a  snarler ; 

So  much,  that  Hal.  was  order'd  back 
From  Bed-room  to  the  Parlour. 

For  Puff  had  sent  his  boys  in  boats, 
"Well  arm'd,  across  the  Ferry; 

So  Moll  tuck'd  up  her  petty-coats. 
And  swore  she  wou'd  be  merry. 

A  friend  like  this,  in  time  of  need. 
For  battle  duly  harness'd. 

Made  her  begin  to  think,  indeed, 
She  was  a  Queen  in  earnest. 

She  call'd  this  Puff,  in  armour  clad, 
Her  Great  and  Good  Ally,  Sir! 

You  think  the  Girl  was  raving  mad ; 
And  so,  perhaps,  do  I,  Sir. 
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Nov^,  what  with  Moll,  and  what  with  Paff, 

In  such  a  combination, 
You  fancy  mother  had  enough 

Of  trouble  and  vexation. 

Why,  as  to  that,  you'll  please  to  wait 

Until  you  hear  the  sequel ; 
For,  tho'  you  think  her  danger  great, 

Her  spirit's  more  than  equal. 

Of  this  was  Puflf  so  well  appriz'd, 
That,  while  he  flatter'd  Molly, 

Her  vain  pretensions  he  despis'd— 
He  knew  'twas  all  a  folly  I 

But  still,  in  keeping  up  the  flame 
Between  the  Dame  and  Damsel, 

Ife  had  his  views — and  so  became 
The  Bully-back  of  Mam'sell. 

'Tis  plain,  the  rogue  could  not  forget 
How  often,  like  a  knave,  he 

Had  by  the  Dame  been  made  to  sweat, 
Until  he  cried,  peecavit 


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Bat  Moll's  afifair — the  Lord  knows  bow  I 

So  long  was  un-decided ; 
He  thought  he  might  do  Bomething  now, 

Against  a  House  divided. 

But  first  he  made  a  private  league 

With  one,  that  in  such  cases 
Was  still  the  Dupe  of  his  intrigue, 

His  comrade  in  disgraces. 

This  comrade,  though  unus'd  to  smile; 

An  awkward  hand  at  flirting ; 
Agreed,  like  Puff,  to  skulk  awhile, 

A  foe  behind  the  curtain. 

This  curtain  drawn — ^lo  1  Neighbour  Strutt 

Appears  in  Manifesto! 
But  as  to  Mary  Cay,  poor  slut — 

Her  very  name  suppress'd,  0 1 

So  here  with  Strutt,  and  there  with  Moll, 

See  Puff  insulting  Madam,' 
Why  surely  now,  both  one  and  all. 

She  wish'd  the  Serpent  had  'em ! 


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And  yet  these  hanghtj  Stratts  and  Puffs, 
Instead  of  plucking  Rosea, 

Got  liitle  else  than  kicks  and  caffs, 
Black  eyes  and  bloody  noses. 


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So,  after  many  Ups  and  Downs, 
Too  tedious  now  to  mention, 

The  Barbers,  Pantaloons,  and  Clowns 
Began  to  curse  contention  I 


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And  Molly,  finding  out  the  trick 
That  Puff  had  meant  to  play  her, 

Wheel'd  right  about,  and  in  the  nick, 
Escap'd  from  her  betrayer. 

And  thus  my  text  I  still  maintain. 
That  Good  may  come  from  Evil : 

For  Moll  will  hardly  think  again 
Of  dealing  with  the  Devil. 


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But  here  you  must  perceive,  I  think. 
My  rhyme  is  getting  scant,  O ; 

So,  if  you  please,  we'll  take  a  drink 
And  wait  for  t'other  Canto. 


A  PRAYER  FOR  THE  CONGRESS. 

[This  piece  is  from  a  little  pamphlet,  entitled  "  Hjmns  for  the 
Nation  in  1782,"  &c.;  published  at  London,  and  probably  written 
hy  Rev.  John  Wesley.  As  the  circulation  and  object  of  the  work 
was  almost  entirely  American,  I  have  no  hesitation  in  including 
these  verses  in  this  series.  The  reader  will  observe  that  in  his 
votive  aspirations,  the  great  Methodist  evidently  had  in  mind  the 
language  of  Saint  Paul  (ii.  Tim.  iv.  14).  "Alexander  the  copper- 
smith did  me  much  evil:  the  Lord  reward  him  according  to  his 
works."] 

True  is  the  Oracle  divine, 

The  sentence  which  thy  lips  hath  past : 
Tho'  hand  in  hand  the  wicked  join, 

They  shall  not,  Lord,  escape  at  last ; 
Who  for  a  while  triumphant  seem, 

Curst  with  their  own  false  hearts'  desire, 
Their  Empire  is  a  fleeting  dream. 

Their  hopes  shall  all  in  smoke  expire. 

Surely  thou  wilt  full  vengeance  take 
On  rebels  'gainst  their  king  and  God ; 

And  strictest  inquisition  make 
For  rivers  spilt  of  guiltless  blood, 


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118  LOYALIST    POETRY. 

By  men  who  take  thy  name  in  vain, 
By  fiends  in  sanctity's  disguise  ; 

As  thou  wert  served  with  nations  slain, 
Or  pleased  with  human  sacrifice. 

Thou  know'st  thine  own  appointed  time 

Th'  ungodly  homicides  to  quell, 
Chastise  their  complicated  crime, 

And  break  their  covenant  with  hell ; 
Thy  plagues  shall  then  o'erwhelm  them  all. 

From  proud  Ambition's  summit  driven ; 
And  Faith  foresees  th'  Usurpers'  fall 

As  Lucifer  cast  down  from  heaven. 

Yet,  if  they  have  not  sinned  the  sin 

Which  never  can  obtain  thy  grace. 
When  Tophet  yawns  to  take  them  in. 

And  claims  them  as  the  proper  place : — 
The  authors  of  our  woes  forgive 

And  snatch  their  souls  from  endless  woes, 
Who  would'st  that  all  mankind  should  live ; 

Who  died'st  thyself  to  save  thy  foes. 


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A  PASTORAL  ELEGY. 

BET  TO  MUSIC  BY  SIONORA  CABOLINA. 

[Tliis  piece  relates  to  the  victory  gained  by  Cornwallls  over  Gates, 
at  Camdeu,  Aug.  16,  1780."  From  Uivingtou's  Oazetto,  Sept.  27, 
1780.] 

JONATHAN.  ISAAC. 

Isaac.     (Allegro.) 

0  wherefore,  brother  Jonathan, 

So  doleful  are  your  features  ? 
Say,  are  you  rather  poorly,  man  ? 

Or  have  you  lost  your  creatures  ? 

Jonathan.     (Piano.) 
Ah,  would  to  Heaven  that  were  all ! 

But  worse  I  have  to  mention : 
For  Gates,  our  gallant  general, 

Has  made  a  new  convention. 

Isaac.     (Vivace.) 
Then,  Jonathan,  prick  up  your  ears; 
Why  don't  you  smile  and  caper  ? 


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120  LOYALIST    POETRY. 

Why,  we'll  enlist  their  Regulars, 
And  pay  them  with  our  paper.** 

Jonathan.    {Piano.) 
The  regulars  prescribed  the  terms, 

Nor  staid  for  long  orations ; 
They  fore'd  our  troops  to  ground  their  arms, 

And  eke  their  corporations. 

Isaac.     (Moderato.) 
Oh  1  that  is  grievous  1  I  mistook, 

Tho'  your  lank  phiz  did  bode  ill. 
How  pert  will  every  Tory  look — 

And  sneer  at  Yankee  Doodle  1 

Jonathan.    (PiaTto.) 
A  thousand  slaughter'd  friends  we've  lost ; 

A  thousand  more  are  taken : 
Horatio's  steed,  which  gallop'd  post, 

Has  sav'd  his  rider's  bacon. 

Duetto.    (Affetuoso.) 
Now  mourn,  with  sack-cloth  cover'd  o'er, 

Our  Israel  forsaken ! 
So  many  slain,  while  such  a  Boar 
As  Gates  should  save  his  bacon. 


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THE  TENTH  REGIMENT'S  VOYAGE 
TO  QUEBEC. 

[On  its  arrival  at  Quebec,  in  1767,  one  of  the  ofBcers  of  the  Tenth 
(or  North  Lincolnshire)  regiment  was  called  on,  at  the  mess-table, 
for  a  song.  He  gave  this,  "  which  unknown  to  the  corps,  he  had 
composed  while  on  the  passage."  The  Tenth  being  sent  to  Boston 
early  in  the  war,  the  song  became  very  popular  with  the  royal  army 
there  and  at  New  York  during  the  Revolution ;  and  was,  in  fact, 
first  published,  by  request  of  many  of  the  officers,  in  Rivington"a 
Royal  Gazette,  Sept.  1st,  1781.8*] 

The  third  day  of  June  in  the  year  sixty-seven, 

The  Xth  in  three  transports  sail'd  out  of  Cork-haven ; 

All  jovial  and  hearty  like  soldiers  so  valiant, 

And  Commodore  Hale  was  quite  top  and  top-gallant. 

The  Major  commanded  on  board  the  Carnarvin, 
A  ship  near  as  large  as  the  town  of  Dungarvin, 
Which  carried  the  women  and  baggage  so  weighty, 
Of  oflBcers  seventeen  and  men  throe  times  eighty. 

A  notion  prevail'd  in  this  jolly  division, 

They'd  ne'er  see  Quebec  till  they  had  spent  their  provision : 


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So  down  they  all  sat  and  fell  eating  and  drinking, 

And  made  their  heads  swim  to  preserve  them  from  sinking. 


Of  all  jolly  fellows,  the  first  to  be  reckon 'd 
Was  Marmaduke  Savage  of  the  Fifty-second : 
For  he  at  the  bottle  was  such  a  brave  shover, 
Before  he  left  land  he  was  near  half-seas  over. 

The  Tenth's  jolly  fellows  were  Basset  and  Valtas, 

Fitzgerald  and  Thompson,  and  Blackey  the , 

Montgomery  and  Parsons,  with  Crampton  and  Haley, 
Thwaites,  Edwards,  and  Vernon,  Taite,  Parsons,  and  Kelly. 


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Fitzgerald  was  hearty,  and  Valtas  was  rosy; 
Thompson  was  rocky,  and  Blackey  was  boozy ; 
And  all  were  as  merry  as  ducks  in  a  shower, 
So  thus  they  went  on  for  near  nine  knots  an  hour. 

But  vain  was  the  courage  of  fresh-water  sailors ; 
The  next  day  they  look'd  like  a  parcel  of  tailors : 
And  tho'  the  King's  birthday,  the  glass  was  rejected ; 
And  Crampton  and  Parsons  for  once  look'd  dejected. 

So  sick  were  our  heroes,  that  not  an  old  stager 
Could  come  on  the  deck  for  three  days,  but  the  Major; 


TENTH  REQIMENT'S  VOYAGE  TO  QUEBEC.   123 

And  he  look'd  so  round,  as  he  sat  with  his  raps  on, 
The  sailors  mistook  him  ofttimes  for  the  capstone. 

Sure  never  poor  Gentlemen  were  in  worse  condition : 
Poor  Shaw  for  a  farthing  would  have  sold  his  commission: 
And  Edwards,  and  Vernon,  Taite,  Parsons,  and  Kelly, 
Were  pictures  of  Jonas  just  from  the  whale's  belly. 

The  storm  being  over,  our  brave  jolly  fellows 
Recover'd  their  spirits  and  laugh'd  at  the  billows ; 
Taite  swore  a  whole  volley,  and  said  he  would  back  it, 
He'd  swim  to  America  in  this  Cork  jacket. 

Then  some  from  their  cabins  and  some  from  their  tickins 
Got  up  on  the  deck,  and  fell  foul  of  the  chickens. 
Holloo  Bucks  I  cries  Blackley,  I  thi  i  you  are  at  it — 
Then  fell  on  his  buttocks  and  cried  out  add  rat  it ! 

Now  Thwaites,  grown  a  sailor,  made  use  of  such  hard  words, 
His  right  was  his  starboard,  his  left  was  his  larboard : 
While  Parsons,  still  using  the  soldier-like  terms  of  war. 
Tacking  call'd  wheeling,  fore  and  aft  front  and  rear. 

Then  Hall,  Moore,  and  Shirley,  the  lords  of  the  navy, 
Came  down  with  a  how  do  ye  do,  and  God  save  ye ! 


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LOYALIST    POETRY. 


Alas  1  brother  soldiers,  what  brought  you  on  shipboard? 
Come  rise,  or  by  Neptune  we'll  give  you  the  whip-cord. 

At  length  a  sad  sameness  made  all  days  like  one  day, 
And  only  for  prayer  dav,  they'd  never  known  Sunday. 
For  Montgomery  their  chaplain,  so  like  a  good  Vicar, 
Took  care  of  their  souls,  and  their  meat,  and  their  liquor. 


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But  such  was  their  hurry,  and  such  was  their  boozing. 
In  nine  weeks  of  wine  they  drank  ninety-one  dozen : 
Of  rura,  shrub,  and  brandy,  good  twenty-eight  gallons ; 
And  fifty-six  ditto  of  porter  to  balance. 

At  length  out  of  spirits,  and  but  of  provision, 

They  arriv'd  at  Point  Levi  in  doleful  condition; 

But  the  sight  of  Quebec  soon  with  courage  renew'd  them ; 

And  the  Spirit  of  Wolfe  as  they  landed  review'd  them. 


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Air  :  Lilies  of  France. 

[From  Rivington's  Gazetteer,  May  5, 1774 ;  written  by  one  Edward 
Botwood,  Serjeant  in  the  grenadiers  of  the  47th  or  Lancashire  Foot, 
on  its  embarcation  for  Quebec  with  Wolfe,  in  1759.  The  author 
"  was  killed,  sword  in  hand,  at  the  attack  of  the  French  entrench- 
ments, on  the  31st  of  July,  that  year:"  but  his  song  long  survived 
him,  and,  like  the  Tenth  Regiment's,  conMnued  a  favourite  with 
the  royal  troops  in  America  during  t.  e  revolutionary  war,  in  which 
the  47th  bore  a  constant  share.  This  consideration  has  governed 
the  insertion  here  of  both  pieces.  The  last  stanza  of  Hot  Stuff  is 
clever,  but  indecent.  It  is  therefore  omitted  in  the  text,  but  ia 
printed  on  a  carton  for  such  as  desire  it.^] 


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Come,  each  death-doing  dog  who  dare  venture  his  neck, 

Come,  follow  the  Hero  that  goes  to  Quebec : 

Jump  aboard  of  the  transports,  and  loose  every  sail ; 

Pay  your  debts  at  the  tavern  by  giving  leg-bail ; 

And  ye  that  love  fighting  shall  soon  have  enough : 

Wolfe  commands  us,  my  boys;  we  shall  give  them  Hot  Stuff. 

Up  the  River  St.  Lawrence  our  troops  shall  advance ; 
To  the  Grenadier's  March  we  will  teach  them  to  dance. 


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LOYALIST    POETRY. 


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Cape-Breton  we  have  taken,  and  next  we  will  try 
At  their  capital  to  give  them  another  black  eye. 
Yaudreuil,  'tis  in  vain  you  pretend  to  look  gruff — 
Those  are  coming  who  know  how  to  give  you  Hot  Stuff. 

With  powder  in  his  periwig,  and  snuff  in  his  nose, 
Monsieur  will  run  down  our  descent  to  oppose ; 
And  the  Indians  will  come :  but  the  light  infantry 
Will  soon  oblige  them  to  betake  to  a  tree. 
From  such  rascals  as  these  may  wc  fear  a  rebuff  1 
Advance,  Grenadiers,  and  let  fly  your  Hot  Stuff ! 

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When  the  Forty-seventh  Regiment  is  dashing  ashore, 
While  bullets  are  whistling  and  cannons  do  roar, 
Says  Montcalm,  "Those  are  Shirley's — I  know  the  lapels — " 
You  lie,  says  Ned  Botwood,  we  belong  to  Lascelles  I 
Tho'  our  cloathing  is  changed,  yet  we  scorn  a  powder-puff; 
So  at  you,  ye  B — s,  here's  give  you  Hot  Stuff. 


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EPIGRAM  ON  GEN.  CHARLES  LEE. 


[When  Charles  Lee  began  to  embroil  himself  in  the  Colonial  dia- 
pates,  the  miniHterial  press  on  both  sides  of  the  water  criticized  his 
conduct  with  great  severity.  An  article  copied  from  the  London 
Evening  Post  of  Nov.  1,  into  Rivington's  Gazetteer  of  22  Dec,  1774, 
will  show  the  temper  of  these  remarks ;  and  at  the  same  time  may 
throw  some  littltt  additional  light  on  Lee's  character  and  history. 
Disappointment  in  his  efforts  to  obtain  a  lieutenant-colonelcy  is 
there  given  as  a  motive  for  his  joining  the  Whigs.  In  Rivington's 
paper  of  Jan.  26, 1775,  this  epigram  is  said  to  have  been  "  spoken 
extempore,  upon  reading  a  Pamphlet,  lately  published  at  Philadel- 
phia, ascribed  to  the  Polish  Hero,  and  called  Strictures  on  a  Pam- 
phlet entitled,  A  Friendly  Address  to  all  reasonable  Americans,  ^c." 
It  is  preceded  by  these  words :  "  May  a  Halter  bind  him,  whom 
Honor  and  Honesty  cannot  t"] 


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Overstogk'd  with  Ambition  and  high-mettled  spirit, 
Without  either  Wisdom,  or  Prudence  or  Merit ; 
Poor  Lubin  a  Regiment  strove  to  obtain, 
Till  his  Coffers  he  empty'd,  and  addl'd  his  Brain. 
Thro'  various  Nations  he  publish'd  his  Mind, 
But  in  vain — for  still  all  to  his  Merits  were  blind. 
Then  swelling  with  Anger,  quoth  Lubin,  "  I  swear, 

"  To  American I  strait  will  repair : 

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LOYALIST    POKTRT. 


"I'll  bead  their  bold  Sona, — and  the  sound  of  my  Name 
"  Shall  lead  thera  to  Victory,  Freedom  and  Fame." 
Jack  Catch,  who  stood  by,  with  significant  Leer, 
Cries,  "  Courage,  my  Hero,  push  on,  never  fear, 
"  Your  Reward  you  shan't  lose,  I'll  be  d — n'd  if  you  do, 
"  Sec  hereP^ — and  a  Halter  presents  to  his  View. 
"  Hands  oflf,  (bellows  Lubin,)  away  with  your  string: 
"  I've  done  with  my  Project,  faith,  rather  than  swing. 
"  If  these  are  your  Tricks,  you  shan't  catch  me  io  fight, 
"  But  in  spite  of  your  slip-noose,  by  G — ,  I  will  write.^' 


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THE  FACTIOUS  DEMAGOGUE. 


^  Portrait. 


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[These  Hudibrastio  lines  are  taken  from  Rivington's  Gazette, 
Oct.  4,  1780.  They  are  sabsoribed  J,  B—y,  Clericus;  and  dated  at 
Halifax,  Nova  Scotia,  May  13, 1780.  The  author  was  probably  the 
Rev.  Jacob  Bailey,  the  frontier  missionary."]  • 


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As  for  his  Religion,  he  could  mix, 
And  blend  it  well  with  politics, 
For  'twas  his  favonrite  opinion 
In  mobs  was  seated  all  dominion : 
All  pow'r  and  might  he  understood 
Rose  from  the  sov'reign  multitude : 
That  right  and  wrong,  that  good  and  ill, 
Were  npthing  but  the  rabble's  will : 
Tho'  they  renounce  the  truth  for  fiction, 
In  nonsense  trust,  and  contradiction ; 
And  tho'  they  change  ten  times  a  day 
As  fear  or  int'rest  leads  the  way; 
And  what  this  hour  is  law  and  reason, 
Declare,  the  next,  revolt  and  treason ; 
Yet  we  each  doctrine  must  receive, 


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LOYALIST    POETRY. 


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And  with  a  pious  grin  believe, 

In  ev'ry  thing  the  people's  choice 

As  true  as  God  Almighty's  voice. 

'Tis  all  divine  which  they've  aver'd, 

However  foolish  or  absard. 

If  in  a  tumult  they  agree 

That  men  from  all  restraints  are  free, 

At  liberty  to  cut  our  throats ; 

'Tis  sanctified  by  major  votes ; 

To  bathe  the  snow  in  kindred  blood, 

When  it  promotes  the  public  good ; 

That  is,  when  men  of  factious  nature. 

Aim  with  ambition  to  be  greater. 

Should  they  in  mighty  Congress  plod 

To  set  up  Hancock  for  a  God; 

A  God  in  earnest  he  must  be, 

With  all  the  forms  of  deity ; 

The  high,  the  low,  the  rich,  the  poor, 

Must  quake  and  tremble  at  his  pow'r ; 

And  who  denies  him  adoration, 

Is  sentenc'd  straightway  to  damnation. 

Yea,  they  have  pow'r  to  godify 

An  onion,  turnip,  or  a  fly : 

And  some  have  even  understood 

To  consecrate  a  pole  of  wood ; 


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Then  force  their  neighbours,  great  and  small, 

Before  it  on  their  knees  to  fall. 

Since  from  the  people  only  springs 

The  right  of  making  Gods  and  Kings, 

Whoe'er  derives  authority 

From  any  Sov 'reign  Powers  on  high, 

Is  at  the  best  a  wicked  dreamer, 

A  stupid  Tory,  and  blasphemer. 

From  this  we  see,  'tis  demonstration 

There's  no  Supreme  in  the  creation. 

Except  that  mighty  pow'r,  the  people ; 

That  weather-cock  which  rides  the  steeple ; 

That  noisy  and  licentious  rabble, 

Which  storms  e'en  Heaven  itself  with  gabble : 

Should  these  give  sanction  to  a  lie, 

'Tis  plain  that  Heav'n  must  ratify ! 


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SONG  OF  THE  VOLUNTEERS  OF 
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Air;  Langolee. 

[When  Sir  H.  Clinton  took  the  chief  command  of  the  army  in 
America,  lie  proceeded  to  embody  a  number  of  loyalist  corps  ;  and 
directed  Lord  Rawdon,  to  whom  its  colonelcy  was  given,  to  raise 
the  Volunteers  of  Ireland.  The  title  will  be  confessed  a  taking  one, 
when  we  recollect  how  many  thousands  of  unsettled  Irish  were  at 
this  time  in  America,  and  how  extensively  the  ranks  of  either  army 
were  replenished  from  that  source.  The  corps,  recruited  in  the 
South,  consisted  of  "400  strapping  fellows,  neither  influenced  by 
Yankees  or  Agues,"  and  it  was  to  its  credit  that,  during  the  whole 
war,  it  never  had  a  deserter.  To  be  sure,  Rawdon  promised  a  re- 
ward of  ten  guineas  for  the  head  of  any  such,  and  five  only,  if  the 
man  was  brought  in  alive.  In  1784,  after  the  peace,  the  men  were 
settled  at  Rawdon,  Nova  Scotia.  While  quartered  at  Jamaica, 
Long  Island,  on  the  17th  Ma^fch,  1780,  Rawdon  gave  his  corps  a 
banquet  in  honor  of  St.  Patrick,  when  the  following  song  was  sung 
by  one  Barney  Thompson,  the  regimental  piper.  Rivington ;  No. 
362.  And  see  Chastellux,  ii.  36:  Simcoe's  Mil.  Jour.  62;  128: 
Gordon,  iii.  388 ;  Onderdonk's  Queen's  Co.  158 ;  246.] 

Success  to  the  shamrogae,  and  all  those  who  wear  it, 

Be  honor  their  portion  wherever  they  go : 
May  riches  attend  them,  and  store  of  good  claret, 

For  how  to  employ  them  sure  none  better  know. 


BONO  OF  THE  VOLUNTEERS  OF  lUELAND.   133 

Every  foe  surveys  them  with  terror ; 
But  every  silk  petticoat  wishes  them  nearer: 
So  Yankee  keep  off,  or  you'll  soon  learn  your  error, 
For  Paddy  shall  prostrate  lay  every  foe. 

This  day — but  the  year  I  can't  rightly  determine — 
Saint  Patrick  the  vipers  did  chase  from  his  land : 
Let's  see  if,  like  him,  we  can't  sweep  off  the  vermin, 

Who  dare  'gainst  the  sons  of  the  shamrogue  to  stand. 
Hand  in  hand !  Let's  carol  the  chorus — 
"  As  long  as  the  blessings  of  Ireland  hang  o'er  us, 
"  The  crest  of  Rebellion  shall  tremble  before  us, 
"Like  brothers  while  thus  we  march  hand  in  hand!" 


Saint  George  and  Saint  Patrick,  Saint  Andrew,  Saint  David, 

Together  may  laugh  at  all  Europe  in  arras. 
Fair  Conquest  her  standard  has  o'er  their  head  waved. 

And  glory  on  them  conferr'd  all  her  charms. 
War's  alarms  to  us  are  a  pleasure  I 
Since  Honour  our  danger  repays  in  full  measure : 
And  all  who  join  us  shall  find  we  have  leisure 
To  think  of  our  sport  e'en  in  war's  alarms  I 


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PASQUINADE 

STUCK  UP  IN  THB  CITT  OP  NKW  TOBK,  AUGUST  12,  1781. 

[It  must  not  be  supposed  that  every  measure  of  their  leaders 
met  with  the  approval  of  the  British  army  and  its  loyal  adherents. 
On  the  contrary,  they  (and  especially  the  latter,  as  is  evidenced  in 
Galloway's  tracts),  were  often  very  free  in  their  condemnation  of 
the  condnct  of  the  war.  I  am  inclined  to  attribute  this  pasquinade 
upon  Clinton's  vain  attempt  to  succour  Cornwallis  to  the  indigna- 
tion of  some  loyalist  at  the  inconsequential  course  thitherto  pur- 
sued by  the  royal  generals.  It  is  taken  from  Carey's  American 
Museum,  Feb.  1789.  I  think  it  would  have  been  but  fair  in  the 
anonymous  author  to  have  told  the  world  that  he  stole  bodily  his 
whole  first  verse  from  "  A  Lyric  Epistle  to  my  Cousin  Shandy,  on 
his  coming  to  Town,"  printed  in  the  New  Foundling  Hospital  for 
Wit,  vol.  i.  p.  144,  in  1771 ;  and  written  by  John  Hall  Stevenson, 
Esq.,  the  author  of  Crazy  Tales  and  other  very  clever  and  indecent 
works.] 

You  know  there  goes  a  tale, 
How  Jonas  went  on  board  a  whale, 
Once  for  a  frolic ; 
And  how  the  whale 
Set  sail 
And  got  the  cholic : 


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PASQUINADE. 

And,  after  a  great  splutter, 
Spewed  bim  up  upon  the  coast, 
Just  like  a  woodcock  on  a  toast 

With  trail  and  butter. 

There  also  goes  a  joke, 
How  Clinton  went  on  board  the  Duke, 
Count  Rochambeau  to  fight ; 
As  he  didn't  fail 
To  set  sail 
The  first  fair  gale, 
For  once  we  thought  him  right. 
But  alter  a  great  clutter. 
He  turn'd  back  along  the  coast, 
And  left  ihe  French  to  make  their  boast, 
And  Englishmen  to  mutter. 


135 


Just  80,  not  long  before. 
Old  Knyp, 
And  Old  Clip,) 
Went  to  the  Jersey  shore. 
The  rebel  rogues  to  beat ; 
But,  at  Yankee  Farms, 
They  took  alarms. 
At  little  harms. 
And  quickly  did  retreat. 


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136  LOYALIST    POETRY. 

Then  after  two  days  wonder, 

Marched  boldly  on  to  Springfield  town, 
And  swore  they'd  knock  the  rebels  down. 
But  as  their  foes 
Gave  them  some  blows, 
They,  like  the  wind. 
Soon  chang'd  their  mind. 
And,  in  a  crack, 
Keturn'd  back, 

From  not  one  third  their  number." 


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HYMN  FOR  THE  LOYAL  AMERICANS. 


[Prom  "  Hymns  for  the  Nation,  in  1782.  London :  printed  by  J. 
Paramore,  at  the  Foundery,  Moorfields :  and  sold  at  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Wesley's  New  Chapel,  in  the  City  Road,  and  all  his  Preaching- 
Houses  in  Town  and  Country,  1781."  I  attribute  the  authorship  of 
this  piece,  as  of  that  on  page  117,  to  the  Rev.  John  Wesley :  and 
similar  reasons  induce  me  to  give  each  of  them  a  place  in  this  vol- 
ume. The  Metl^oi;,  s  in  America  during  the  war  were  numerous, 
and  were,  generp'"  i>.,"er8  of  the  royal  cause.    They  and  the 

Quakers  are  pail.  ;'.  •.'v  related  to  have  abstained  from  taking 
»ny  advantage  of  the  laws  making  paper-money  a  legal  tender  for 
ancient  debts.    Gordon;  iv.  145.] 

Father  of  everlasting  love, 

The  only  refuge  of  despair, 
Thy  bowels  toward  th' aflBicted  move; 

And  now  thou  hear'st  the  monrnful  prayer 
We  for  our  hapless  Brethren  breathe, 
Who  pant  within  the  jaws  of  death. 


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The  men  who  dared  their  King  revere, 

And  faithful  to  their  Oaths  abide, 
Midst  perjur'd  Hypocrites  sincere, 


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LOYALIST    POETRY. 


Harass'd,  oppress'd  on  every  side ; 
Gaul'd  by  the  Tyrant's  iron  yoke, 
By  Britain's  faithless  sons  forsook. 


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Our  patriot  Chiefs  betray'd  their  trust, 
To  serve  their  own  infernal  ends, 

The  Slaves  of  avarice  and  lust, 

Sparing  their  foes,  they  spoil'd  their  friends, 

Basely  repaid  their  loyal  zeal. 

And  left  them — ^to  the  Murtherer's  steel. 


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As  sheep  appointed  to  be  Blain, 

The  victims  of  fidelity, 
To  man  they  look  for  help  in  vain ; 

But  shall  they  look  in  vain  to  Thee, 
God  over  all,  who  canst  subdue 
The  hearts  which  mercy  never  knew? 

Ev'n  DOW  thou  canst  disarm  their  rage, 
(If  so  thy  gracious  will  intends) 

The  wrath  implacable  assuage. 
The  malice  of  infernal  fiends: 

Mercy  at  last  compell'd  to  show. 

And  let  the  hopeless  captives  go. 


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HTMN    FOR    THE    LOTAL    AMERICANS. 

Yet  if  our  Brethren's  doom  be  seal'd ; 

And  for  superior  joys  design'd, 
They  have  their  glorious  course  fulfill'd  ; 

To  souls  beneath  the  altar  join'd ; 
Their  guiltless  blood  hath  found  a  tongue, 
And  every  drop  exclaims — "How  long?" 

0  earth,  conceal  not  thou  their  blood, 
Which  loud  as  Zachariah's  cries  I 

0  God,  thou  just,  avenging  God, 
Behold  them  with  thy  flaming  eyes. 

And  blast,  and  utterly  consume 

Those  Murtherers  oi  fanatic  Rome. 

Till  then,  thou  bidst  thy  servants  rest, 
Who  suflFered  death  for  conscience  sake, 

And  wait  to  rise  completely  blest 
The  general  triumph  to  partake ; 

To  see  the  righteous  Judge  come  down 

And  boldly  claim  the  Martyr's  crown. 


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BIRTHDAY  OF  HIS  ROYAL  HIGHNESS  THE  PRINCE  OP 

WALES. 

AcGcsT  12, 1782. 
[From  RiTington's  Royal  Gazette;  Nov.  2, 1782.] 


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Who  dares — ^tho'  ev'n  of  patriot  name — 

To  rise,  and  wrong  a  Royal  Heir  ? 
Shall  colonies — his  kindred  claim — 

No  more  be  Britain's  care  ? 
Still  Britain's  care  1  tho'  Proteus  breed 
The  rain  of  the  realm  decreed — 

When  cherish'd  in  a  court — 
Alluring  nations,  in  their  play. 
To  cast  at  once  a  World  away — 

And  cry — "We  were  in  sport  1" 
Ye  sophist  sons,  no  more  conspire. 

To  fan  the  flame  with  baneful  breath ; 
Nor  deal  your  desolating  fire, 

And  arrows  dipp'd  in  death ! 


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Avannt,  ingrates  I  sink  in  your  native  night  ' 

Who  dare  to  alienate  a  George's  Botal  Bight  ! 


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Thou  Great  Supreme,  in  ev'ry  Age, 
'Midst  jodgmebt  mix'd  thy  mercy  mild, 

Deal  with  the  nations,  as  the  sage 
Dealt  with  the  matrons  and  the  doabtfnl  child. 

The  states  and  kingdoms  all  combin'd 

Compose  One  of  nnnat'ral  kind, 
Nor  can  affection  know — 
From  Britain  only  can  compassion  fiow ! 

'Tis  Britain,  long  a  mother's  care  exprest. 

Still  longs  to  press  her  offspring  to  her  tender  breast. 
Begailed  sons,  of  British  name. 
Still  Britain's  care,  still  Britain's  claim ; 

Nor  can  she  e'er  from  her  affection  swerve : — 
Beturn,  and  with  her  every  blessing  share: 

She  aims  but  to  restore,  and  still  preserve 
The  right  she  mutt  maintain  to  Geokge,  her  Boyal  Heib  I 


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TO  HIS  SOLDIERS. 


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[These  lines,  Bald  to  have  been  written  eztemporaneooslj  by  a 
young  lady,  of  Stanford,  Conn.,  on  ocoasion  of  Gen.  David  Water- 
bury  being  removed  from  his  command  of  the  troops  of  that  state, 
which  had  been  raised  to  defend  the  frontiers  and  coast  against 
royalist  invasion.  He  is  charged  by  the  Loyalists  of  that  time  with 
great  cruelties  towards  them,  though  himself  on  the  British  half- 
pay  :  usually  giving  them  thirty-nine  lashes  each,  and  then  con- 
fining them  in  Simsbury  mines.  From  Rivington's  Royal  Gazette, 
No.  672,  for  March  23, 1782.M'] 

My  Soldiers  all, 

To  you  I  call, 
Pray  lend  a  list'ning  ear ; 

And  you  shall  find 

What  plagues  the  mind 
Of  him  you  lov'd  so  dear. 

Now  do  yon  see. 
What's  death  to  me, 
I  feel  myself  decline : 


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waterburt's  farewell. 

Whot  shall  I  do?  " 

It  causes  Woe 
To  think  I  mast  resign. 

I  soon  shall  yield 

To  Squire  Canfield, 
Who  takes  my  place  and  station : 

Then  I'm  afraid 

The  London  track 
Will  over-run  our  nation. 

Those  works  which  I 

Have  built  so  high, 
Will  now  be  quite  neglected ; 

Did  but  the  frame 

Bear  my  own  name 
I'd  not  be  thus  dejected. 

In  the  late  alarm 

I  meant  no  harm, 
But  acted  prudent  then : 

For,  do  you  see, 

I  hid  the  key. 
And  sav'd  both  stores  and  men. 


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tOTALIBT    POXTET. 

And  sare  'tis  right, 
When  in  a  fright, 

To  fly  without  delay : 
For  now  my  men 
May  fight  again, 

Upon  some  other  day. 

But  I'm  so  vex'd, 

And  so  perplex'd, 
For  fear  I  may  be  taken, 

That  though  you  scoflf, 

I  will  move  off 
And  try  to  save  my  bacon. 


AN  EPITAPH 

ON  TBB  POLITICAL  DEATH  OF  DAVID  WATEBBUBT,  THE  STA5F0BD  HEBO. 

Here  lies  in  state, 

David  the  Great, 
A  hero  in  his  estimation. 

His  flesh  was  found 

Without  a  wound : 
He  dy'd  of  a  Mortification. 


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THE  BATTLE  OF  CANE  CREEK. 

[From  Canither'B  '  Old  North  State  ;•  p.  223.  These  fragmentary 
verses  are  carious,  as  being  one  of  the  very  few  local  Tory  ballads 
of  the  South  that  remain  to  us.  Colonel  Hector  Maoneill,  the  leader 
of  the  Soots,  a  veteran  and  gallant  soldier ;  and  Captain  Neill  Mac- 
neill,  of  Cumberland  county,  N.  C,  are  referred  to  towards  the 
conclusion.*'] 

Thk  Governor  and  Council  in  Hillsboro'  sought, 
To  establish  some  new  laws  the  Tories  to  stop. 

They  thought  themselves  safe,  so  went  on  with  their  show : 
But  the  face  of  bold  Fanning  proved  their  overthrow. 

We  took  Governor  Burke  with  a  sudden  surprise, 
As  he  sate  upon  horseback,  just  ready  to  ride. 

We  took  all  their  cannon  and  colours  in  town. 

And  formed  our  brave  boys,  and  marched  out  of  town. 

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LOYALIST    POBTnY. 


But  the  rebels  parsucd  as,  and  gave  a  broadside, 
That  caused  oar  brave  colonel  to  fall  dead  on  his  side. 

The  flower  of  onr  company  was  wounded  full  sore : 
'Twas  Captain  Macneill,  and  two  or  three  more. 


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TO  NEIGHBOUR  HOLT 


05  niS  BMDLEMATICAL  TWISTIFICATION. 


[From  Rivington's  Qazetteer,  Jan.  19, 1776.  John  Holt,  the  pub- 
lisher of  the  New  York  Journal,  in  1774  discarded  the  royal  arms 
as  a  head-piece  to  his  paper,  and  substituted  a  brolcen  snnke,  with 
the  motto:  "  Unite  or  die."  In  Jan.  1775,  this  again  gave  way  f. 
a  snake  encircling  a  column  of  liberty,  &o.:  see  Thomas  iiist. 
Printing,  ii.  307.  One  of  the  allusions  below  will  be  better  undo<'- 
stood  by  reference  to  the  original  cut :  it  cannot  be  explained  here.  ] 


1 . 


'Ti8  true,  Johnny  Holt,  you  have  caus'd  us  some  pain, 
By  changing  your  Head-piece  again  and  again ; 
But  then  to  your  praise  it  may  justly  be  said, 
You  have  giv'n  us  a  notable  Tail-piece  instead. 
'Tis  true,  that  the  Arms  of  a  good  British  King 
Have  been  forc'd  to  give  way  to  a  Snake — with  a  Sting ; 
Which  some  would  interpret,  as  tho'  it  implied 
That  the  King  by  a  wound  of  that  Serpent  had  died. 
But  now  must  their  Malice  all  sink  into  Shade, 
By  the  happy  device  which  you  lately  display'd ; 
And  Tories  themselves  be  convinc'd  you  are  slander'd 
Who  see  you've  erected  the  Right  Royal  Standare 


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1.  The  American  Times  is  here  printed  from  the  text  given  in 
The  Cow-ChacCf  &c.,  (N.  Y.  1780,)  collated  with  an  earlier  copy  in 
the  Fisher  MSS.  On  another  occasion,  I  hope  to  present  a  biogra- 
phical notice  of  ita  author ;  whose  pseudonym  of  Camillo  Quemo, 
the  poet  and  buffoon  of  Leo  X,  was  probably  suggested  by  that 
writer's  application  of  a  lofty  measure  and  learned  conceits  to 
trivial  subjects.  The  reader  will  recall  Pope's  lines;  (Dunciad, 
ii.  13;) 

Not  with  more  glee,  with  hands  pontiflc  crownM, 
With  scarlet  hats  wide-waving  circled  round, 
Borne  in  her  Capitol  saw  Querno  sit, 
Thron'd  on  seven  hills,  the  antichrist  of  wit. 

For  more  of  Querno,  see  Warburton's  note  on  the  above  passage ; 
Pope's  paper  on  the  Poet  Laureate;  Stradse  Prolusiones;  Oxon. 
1745,  p.  244 ;  Spectator,  No.  617 ;  Bayle's  Diet.  art.  Leo.  X,  Pre- 
faced to  the  edition  of  the  Times,  of  1780,  appears  this  advertise- 
ment. 

"  The  masters  of  Reason  have  decided,  that  when  doctrines  and 
practices  have  been  fairly  examined,  and  proved  to  be  contrary  to 


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Truth,  and  injarioai  to  Sooietj,  then  and  not  beforo  maj  Ridioal« 
Im  lawfallj  employed  in  the  Serrioe  of  Virtue. 

"  This  is  exactly  the  case  of  the  grand  American  Rebellion ;  it 
has  been  weighed  in  the  balance,  and  found  wanting :  able  writers 
have  exposed  its  principles,  its  conduct,  and  its  final  aim.  Reason 
has  done  her  part,  and  therefore  this  is  the  legitimate  moment  for 
Satire. 

"  Accordingly  the  following  Piece  is  offered  to  the  Public.  What 
it  is  found  to  want  of  Genius,  the  Author  cannot  supply ;  what  it 
may  want  of  Correction,  he  hopes  the  candor  of  the  Public  will 
excuse  on  account  of  the  fugitive  nature  of  the  subject :  next  year 
the  publication  would  be  too  late ;  for  in  all  probability  there  will 
then  be  no  Congress  existing." 


2.  In  Mr.  Fisher's  MS.,  these  two  lines  succeed: 

Should  Atley  summon  to  bis  savage  bar, 
To  tremble  at  Ms  rod  be  from  us  far. 

William  Augustus  Atley  was  one  of  the  court  which  convicted  Ro- 
berts and  Carlisle. 


3.  Of  the  American  leaders,  Warren,  Irvine,  Mercer,  &c.,  had 
been  physicians ;  Reed,  Sullivan,  &c.,  lawyers ;  and  others  were 
tradesmen,  farmers,  mechanics  and  innkeepers :  one  was  even  a 
divine  ordained  by  the  Bishop  of  London.  Among  the  inferior 
grades,  there  were  many  who  incurred  the  ridicule  of  their  own 
comrades  (see  Graydor  and  Thacher),  as  well  as  of  the  British : 
who  were  very  merry  over  the  capture  of  a  whig  officer  on  Long 
Island  (Dec.  1777,)  with  his  commission  and  two  silver  spoons  in 


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hit  pocket.  Proof  ia  not  wanting  that  some  of  our  officers  were 
unfit  to  be  trusted,  as  in  the  case  of  Col.  Nicholas  Housegger,  of  a 
Pennsjlrania  regiment,  who  went  over  to  the  enemy,  and  of  Alex. 
MoDowall,  adjutant  of  Col.  Welles 's  Connecticut  regiment,  who 
was  hanged  for  desertion  21  March,  1781.  In  the  Feuna.  Ledger, 
No.  101,  under  London  dates  of  June  3,  1777,  is  this  story:  "A 
young  fellow  named  Dawkins,  who  was  some  time  since  tried  at 
Chelmsford  Assize,  and  transported  for  stealing  cheese,  &(?.,  has, 
we  hear,  just  sent  a  letter  to  his  mother,  informing  her  the  Ameri- 
can Congress  have  presented  him  with  a  Captain's  commission. 
He  says  several  other  Essex  patriots,  who  like  himself  were  torn 
from  their  dearest  connections,  and  banished  for  their  firm  attach- 
ment to  the  cause  of  Liberty,  now  rank  high  in  the  American 
Army." 

4.  Gen.  Charles  Lee,  the  scourge  of  Toryism.  In  1776,  he  threat- 
ened that  if  the  British  ships  in  the  harbor  fired  a  single  house  in 
New  York,  he  would  "chain  a  hundred  of  their  friends  by  the 
neck,  and  make  the  house  their  funeral  pile."  At  Newport  he  was 
equally  severe.  Nor  was  he  more  guarded  in  his  intercourse  with 
his  own  party,  as  will  be  seen  from  the  following  passage  in  his 
letter  to  R.  H,  Lee,  of  5  Apr.  1776,  where  after  speaking  of  the  Vir- 
ginia whigs,  he  says ;  "  but  from  Pendleton,  Bland,  the  Treasurer  & 
Co.,  libera  nos  Domine  :  Pendleton  is  certainly  naturally  a  man  of 
sense,  but  I  can  assure  you  that  the  other  night  in  a  conversation 
I  had  with  him  on  the  subject  of  independence,  He  talk'd  or  rather 
stammer'd  what  would  have  disgraced  the  lips  of  an  old  midwife 
drpnk  with  bohea  Tea  and  gin.    Bland  says  that  the  Author  of 


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Common  Sense  is  a  blockhead  and  ignoramus,  for  that  he  has 
grossly  mistaken  the  nature  of  the  Jewish  Theocracy."    This  pas-     ^ 
sage  is  omitted  in  R.  H.  Lee's  Life  (ii.  215),  but  it  exists  in  the 
Lee  MSS.  in  the  Am.  Phil.  Soc.    A  curious  anecdote  of  his  habitual 
brnsquerie  is  given  by  Lauzun  (M^moires:  i.  169). 

5.  — «—  mUclilef  on  thy  brow. — Fistter  MS. 

William  Liringston :  "  late  a  lawyer ;  now  the  rebel  Governor  of 
New  Jersey."  (Author's  note.)  "A  plain  man,  tall,  black,  wears 
his  hair ;  nothing  elegant  or  genteel  about  him.  They  say  he  is  no' 
public  speaker,  but  very  sensible  and  learned,  and  a  ready  writer." 
(J.  Adams  :  Diary,  Sept.  1, 1774.)  In  June,  1776,  he  was  dropped 
from  the  Jersey  delegation  to  Congress,  "  under  a  strong  persuasion 
that  he  WaS  not  favourable  to  independency,"  and  Dr.  Witherspoon 
sent  in  his  stead :  but  in  the  next  September,  was  chosen  governor. 
"  There  was  an  equal  number  of  votes  for  him  and  Mr.  Stockton ; 
but  the  latter  having  just  at  the  moment  refused  to  furnish  hit 
team  or  horses  for  the  service  of  the  public,  and  the  legislature 
coming  to  the  knowledge  of  it,  the  choice  of  Mr.  Livingston  took 
place  immediately."  (Gordon :  ii.  277 ;  300.)  The  famous  Atarquit 
de  Lisle  papers,  usually  credited  to  Gen.  Conway,  were  ascribed  to 
Livingston.  (Penn.  Ledger ;  No.  151.)  His  conduct  to  the  British 
and  Tories  was  very  severe.  Witness  his  piece  signed  Adolphutf 
and  his  message  to  the  Assembly.  (^.  J.  Gaz.  Feb.  25  ;  March  4; 
1778.)  He  even  went  so  far  as  to  hang  for  traitors  Jersey  loyalists 
who  had  taken  up  arms  for  the  king. 

9,  Who,  who  is  this,  more  gentle  and  humane ; 

Whose  words  fall  softer  than  the  vernal  rain  ? 
Beneath  his  honey'd  tongae  yet  poisons  lurlc: 
Say,  is  it  Belial,  or  Jehu  Jay  of  York  r—FUtur  MS. 


NOTES. 


165 


John  Jay,  "  late  a  lawyer  of  New- York,  member  and  President  of 
Congress,  &o."  (Author's  note.)  His  temperate  course  is  well  de- 
scribed by  Mr.  Flanders.  Of  the  highest  integrity  and  parts,  he 
"  was  eminently  a  man  of  prudence  and  caution.  He  was  not  saga- 
cious of  the  future.  His  watch,  unlike  Talleyrand's,  did  not  go 
faster  than  his  neighbor's."  Hence  the  loyalistr  '.y,  at  the  out- 
set, have  supposed  him  not  in  favor  of  Independence.  Some  of  the 
whigs  at  that  time  were  certainly  prejudiced  against  him.  J. 
Adams  says  (Oct.  11, 1774,)  that  Patrick  Henry  expressed  "a  hor- 
rid opinion  of  Galloway,  Jay,  and  the  Rutledges.  Their  system,  he 
says,  would  ruin  the  cause  of  America.  He  is  very  impatient  to 
see  such  fellows,  and  not  be  at  liberty  to  describe  them  in  their  true 
colors."  Once  possessed  with  the  false  idea  that  Jay's  unbiassed 
opinions  were  the  same  as  their  own,  it  is  not  strange  that  the 
Tories  distrusted  his  sincerity.    See  also  Adams :  x.  79,  410. 


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7.  Samuel  Chase, "  a  lawyer  of  Maryland — member  of  Congress," 
(Author's  note:)  was  the  son  of  Rev.  Thos.  Chase,  of  St.  Paul's 
parish,  Baltimore,  who  died  Apr.  4, 1779,  aged  79.  The  son  was  a 
thorough-going  whig,  but  of  a  very  violent  temper.  The  torles,  to 
whom  he  was  not  very  merciful,  had  "  a  horrid  opinion"  of  him,  as 
Henry  would  say.  He  opposed  the  present  Constitution,  and  was 
the  Judge  Chase  who  was  afterwards  impeached.  He  seems  to  have 
always  had  enemies.  Gordon  insinuates  a  very  unpleasant  story 
against  him  in  July,  1778,  and  Cobbett,  describing  his  house  being 
threatened  by  a  mob  in  Nov.  1798,  impudently  says:  "While 
Judge  Chase  was  sitting  up  and  passing  the  night  in  fear  of  his  life, 
I  should  be  glad  to  know  if  he  reflected  on  the  cause  which  led  to 


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8.  "  A  merchant  of  Philadelphia,  the  credit  of  whose  house  gave 
the  first  sanction  to  the  continental  currency — late  a  member  of 
Congress."  (Author's  note.)  The  services  and  the  misfortunes  of 
Mr.  Morris  are  well  known :  Turner's  Hist.  Holland  Purchase,  p. 
187,  has  a  capital  sketch  of  him. 

t.  In  other  Times  unnoticed  he  might  pass ; 

These  Times  can  make  a  statesman  of  an  ass. — Fisher  MS. 

Gouvemeur  Morris, "  a  lawyer  of  New- York,  member  of  Congress." 
(Author's  note.)  In  connection  with  this  charge  of  self-sufficiency, 
I  will  mention  an  anecdote  derived  from  one  who  was  the  subject 
of  Morris's  warmest  eulogy.  At  a  dinner-table  in  London,  he  is 
said  to  have  remarked  to  Mr.  Fox ;  "  I  don't  think  much  of  your 
India  Bill,  Mr.  Fox."  "Have  you  read  it,  sir?"  was  the  reply. 
Morris  not  at  all  disconcerted  by  the  fact  that  he  had  not  read  it, 
remained  some  time  longer  at  the  table ;  but  when  he  left  the  room, 
Fox  broke  out :  "  They  may  talk  as  they  please  of  Scotch  imperti- 
nence and  of  Irish  insolence — but  for  matchless  impudence,  give 
me  an  American !"  I  do  not  see  that  his  authorship  of  an  Addiess 
to  the  Quakers,  printed  in  the  Penn.  Packet,  Feb.  27, 1779,  is  men- 
tioned in  his  works.  With  other  good  and  great  men,  he  is  scurri- 
lously  libelled  in  the  Hamiltoniad.  Pasquin  says  he  was  not  sent 
to  the  federal  constitutional  convention  by  his  own  State,  but 
through  Robert  Morris's  influence,  from  Pennsylvania.  I  believe 
that  to  his  polishing  hand  we  owe  the  present  form  of  the  constitu- 


NOTES. 


157 


tion.  Pasquin  also  sajs :  "  When  the  oonstitation  for  the  federal 
citj  was  to  be  formed,  Oourernear'ti  first  article  was,  There  shall  be 
a  d — ned  strong  Jail.  He  certainly  did  not  mean  it  for  himself;  but 
had  he  staid  a  few  days  longer  in  France  he  would  have  known 
what  a  strong  jail  was,  and  energy  too,  for  the  committee  of  public 
safety  had  intercepted  some  letters,  and  they  sent  a  guard  to  the 
house  where  he  used  to  live,  to  arrest  him  and  take  him  to  prison," 
&c.  This  same  scamp  is  the  only  post-revolutiouary  writer  that  I 
recollect  as  quoting  from  Odell.     He  applies  this  line  to  Morris ;    . 

"  On  all  things  talkable  he  boldly  talkft." 

10.  Wm.  Duer  and  James  Duane,  "  lawyers  of  New-York — mem- 
bers of  Congress — amiable  in  the  former  part  of  their  lives — now 
alas,  how  changed  I"  (Author's  note.)  Col.  Duer  was  a  good  and 
brave,  but  an  unfortunate  man.  A  very  dirty  hack,  who  came 
hither  from  Gioib  Street  after  the  war,  says  he  "  afterwards  broke 
on  a  land  speculation,  for  several  millions  of  dollars,  and  died  in 
confinement  at  New-York."  (Hamiltoniad,  p.  22.)  Duane's  life  is 
in  Doc.  Hist.  N.  Y.  iv.  641.  "  He  is  of  a  gay  character,  has  no  ob- 
jection to  talk,  and  drinks  without  reluctance."  (Chastelluz,  1. 
218.)  He  is  "the  mild  and  meek  Duane"  of  the  whig  poets.  In 
the  congress  of  1774,  he  sided  with  Galloway,  and  in  that  of  1775,  de- 
feated a  resolution  to  seize  Oov.  Tryon ;  declaring  him  to  be  as  good 
a  friend  to  the  American  cause  as  any  one  present ;  an  assertion 
which  led  to  an  instant  altercation  with  Langdon  of  N.  H.  He 
seems  to  have  been  an  upright  and  conscientious  man,  though  J. 
Adams  thought  him  sly  and  artful.  His  being  a  Churchman  and 
his  aversion  to  extreme  measures,  as  well  as  his  dislike  to  Gates, 


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and,  perhaps,  to  New  England,  were  not  calculated  to  win  universal 
favor. 

11.  Judges  ;  ix  ;  8 — 15.  "  Jothan's  fable  of  the  trees  is  the  old- 
est that  is  extant,  and  as  beautiful  as  any  that  have  been  made 
since  that  time." — Addison. 

12.  "  Cooper,  Hancock,  and  the  two  Adams's — of  the  fli'st  of  thom 
only  can  it  be  necessary  to  say  anything :  Dr.  Cooper  is  a  congre- 
gational minister  of  Boston,  and  the  oracle  of  those  few  rebels,  who 
are  in  the  secret  of  affairs. — If  a  human  being  can  take  delight  in 
having  been  the  author  of  misery,  this  man  must  be  one  of  the 
happiest  in  the  creation  I"  (Author's  note)  In  John  Adams's 
Works,  ii.  163,  is  an  interesting  sketch  of  Samuel  Adams,  in  17C5. 
His  politics  were  what  would  now  be  called  radical,  and  were  not 
welcome  to  the  tories  nor  to  all  the  whigs.  "  Mr.  Samuel  Adams" 
wrote  Barbo-Marbois  to  M.  de  Vergeunes,  March  13,  1782 — "de- 
lights in  trouble  and  difficulty."  In  later  years  he  was  Hancock's 
political  enemy ;  and  indeed,  so  early  as  1778,  the  Penn.  Ledger, 
No.  133,  says  they  had  broken  with  each  other.  Mr.  Sabine  no- 
tices the  old  tory  imputation,  that  he  "  was  a  defaulting  collector 
of  taxes,  and  paid  up  his  arrears  of  money  in  abuse  of  honest  men." 
It  rests  on  the  same  uncertain  foundation  with  the  tale  that  J. 
Adams  became  a  whig  because  he  was  denied  a  commission  of  the 
peace. 

Of  Hancock,  who  was,  it  is  said,  on  the  point  of  joining  the  tory 
party  before  the  contest  began,  some  curious  traits  are  given  by  J. 
Adams;  particularly  of  his  vexation  at  not  receiving  the  chief 


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150 


coramnnd,  in  lieu  of  Wasliiugton.  His  "provailing  fuible  was  a 
fondness  for  official  distinction,"  says  Mr.  C.  F.  Adams.  "His 
equipage  was  splendid  and  magnificent ;  and  such  as  at  present  is 
nnknown  in  America.  His  apparel  was  sumptuously  embroidered 
with  gold  and  silver  lace,  and  all  the  other  decorations  fashionable 
among  men  of  fortune  at  that  day ;  he  rode,  especially  upon  pub- 
lic occasions,  with  six  beautiful  bays,  and  with  servants  in  livery. 
He  was  graceful  and  prepossessing  in  manners,  and  very  passion- 
ately addicted  to  what  are  called  the  elegant  pleasures  of  life :  to 
dancing,  music,  concerts,  routs,  assemblies,  card  parties,  rich  wines, 
social  dinners  and  festivities."  The  Penn.  Ledger  of  March  11, 
1778,  says  he  "  rides  in  an  elegant  chariot,  taken  from  a  prize  to 
the  Civil  Usage  privateer,  and  presented  to  him  by  the  owners, 
with  four  servants  in  superb  livery,  finely  mounted."  J.  Adams, 
Nov.  17, 1777,  notes  in  his  Diary:  "The  tavemers  are  complaining 
of  the  guard  of  light-horse  which  attended  Mr.  H.  They  did  not 
pay,  and  the  tavemers  were  obliged  to  go  after  them  to  demand 
their  dues.  The  expense,  which  is  supposed  to  be  the  country's,  is 
unpopular.  The  Tories  laugh  at  the  tavern-keepers,  who  have 
often  turned  them  out  of  their  houses  for  abusing  Mr.  H.  They 
now  scoff  at  them  fur  being  imposed  upon  by  their  king,  as  thej 
call  him.  Vanity  is  always  mean ;  vanity  is  never  rich  enough  to 
be  generous."  Here  is  evidence  of  an  alienation  of  feeling,  which 
is  perhaps  alluded  to  by  Trumbull,  Sept.  1, 1777  :  "  Is  it  known  in 
your  state  [the  Massachusetts]  that  the  president  [Hancock]  is 
with  the  Yorkers  and  Southern  Bashaws :  that  if  be  wants  anything 
moved,  his  brother  delegates  are  not  applied  to,  but  the  motion 
comes  from  Duane,  or  some  other  person  of  no  better  character ; 


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NOTES. 


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and  that  there  is  no  harmony  between  him  and  his  brethren?" 
(Oordon;  ii.  502;  iii.  20.)  But  the  most  damaging  attack  Han- 
cock ever  received  was  from  the  Writings  of  Laco  (Boston,  1789)  ; 
an  anonymous  author,  whose  secret  has  never  transpired.  Doubt- 
less envy  of  his  elegant  tastes  and  superior  fortune  had  no  small 
share  in  producing  the  dislike  with  which  Hancock  was  often  held 
by  his  less  favored  countrymen.  In  this  connexion,  the  following 
extract  from  an  unpublished  letter  from  Wm.  Palfrey  to  Qen. 
Greene  (14  Jan.  1779)  may  be  interesting. 

"  I  have  just  returned  from  spending  a  fortnight  with  our  worthy 
friend,  Qeneral  Hancock,  who  often  mentioned  yon  with  great  plea- 
sure. He  has  been  laid  up  with  the  gout,  but  is  so  far  recover'd  as 
to  be  able  to  attend  the  Assembly,  which  is  now  sitting.  Tliere 
seems  to  be  a  coolness  between  him  and  General  Gates.  Neither 
they  or  their  Ladies  have  visited  each  other.  Gen.  G.  seems  not 
very  well  pleased  with  his  situation,  and  I  believe  wishes  most 
heartily  to  return  to  his  Sabine  Fields.  His  family  have  been  in- 
volved in  quarrels  almost  ever  since  they  have  been  in  the  place, 
which  bid  fair  to  proceed  to  such  a  length  that  the  civil  authority 
thought  proper  to  interpose.  Mr.  Bob.  Gates  and  Mr.  Carter  have 
fought,  but  it  proved  a  bloodless  encounter."  (Greene  MSS.  Am. 
Phil.  Soo.)  The  allusion  in  the  text  to  the  costume  of  the  Bos- 
tonian  patriots  is  curious. 


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13.  "  Gates  and  Wayne,  rebel  generals — the  former,  one  of  the 
most  ungrateful  Englishmen ;  the  latter,  one  of  the  most  sangui- 
nary Americans."  (Author's  note.)  Gordon's  insinuation  (iv. 
356;)  that  at  the  meeting  of  the  officers  on  the  Hudson  in  1783, 


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Oates  was  in  faror  of  the  extreme  steps  Indicated  bj  the  Newburg 
letters  of  Armstrong,  his  aide,  maj  be  cited  as  an  instance  of  the 
different  points  of  view  in  which  two  men  maj  regard  the  same 
character.  As  to  Wayne,  though  he  was  not  free  from  those  gene* 
rous  failings  which  so  often  accompanjr  the  soldier,  (Lee's  South. 
Camp,  ii ;  203 :)  Stony  Point  proves  him  to  have  been  anything 
rather  than  sanguinary  in  his  temper.  He  was  no  milksop,  to 
hesitate  at  a  necessary  destruction  of  life :  but  he  was  not  cruel  or 
Tindictive. 


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14.  The  physical  condition  of  our  army  was  often  very  bad. 
That  it  suffered  vastly  from  hunger  and  the  elements  is  well- 
known.  Qordon  (ii ;  142;  205;)  relates  many  things  relevant  to 
the  rest  of  this  passage.  In  Oct.  1776,  he  writes :  '*  Many  of  the 
Americans  have  sickened  and  died  of  the  dysentery,  brought  on 
them,  in  a  great  measure,  through  an  inattention  to  cleanliness. 
When  at  home,  their  female  relations  put  them  upon  washing  their 
hands  and  faces,  and  keeping  themselves  neat  and  clean :  but  being 
absent  from  such  monitors,  through  an  indolent  heedless  turn  of 
mind,  they  have  neglected  the  means  of  health,  have  grown  filthy, 
and  have  poisoned  their  constitutions  by  nastiness."  Of  the  troops 
at  Now  York  in  1776,  he  says:  "However  as  they  (especially  the 
Connecticut  soldiers,  whom  some  pronounce  the  dirtiest  people  on 
the  continent)  are  not  particularly  attentive  to  cleanliness,  the 
owners  of  the  houses  where  they  are  quartered,  if  ever  they  get 
possession  of  them,  must  be  years  in  cleaning  them,  unless  they 
get  new  floors,  and  new  plaister  the  wiiUs."  And  see  Smyth's  Tour : 
i.  18.     Gordon  is  constantly  cited,  not  only  because  ho  is  often  con- 


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firmed  by  other  writer*,  but  alao  because  of  his  being  a  Massacha* 
setts  clergyman  in  the  whig  interest,  who  wrote  things  when  and  as 
he  saw  them.  Thus  Cobbett  called  him  "a  vile,  vicious  Calvinist, 
who  wrote  to  humour  a  disaffected  set  in  Great  Britain,  and  who 
sought  for  nothing  but  accusations  against  the  British  government 
and  the  British  army."  (Pore  Works  ;  ix;  30.)  He  tells  home- 
truths  that  others  would  suppress.  Adams  complains  therefore 
of  '  Parson  Gordon  of  Roxbury'  as  "  not  suflBciently  tender  of  the 
character  of  our  Province,  upon  which  at  this  time  much  depends ;" 
and  fears  "his  indiscreet  prp  will  do  harm  in  this  city:"  (Phila- 
delphia, 1775.)  But  Mr.  C.  .  Adams  speaks  rather  well  of  his 
book  :  nd  Frothingham  rates  him  "  a  historian  of  established  repu- 
tation for  fidelity."  Hence  he  may  be  cited  to  show  at  least  the 
whig  view  of  the  period  on  certain  matters  noted. 


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15.  All  Europe  being  then  at  peace,  the  commencement  of  the  war 
in  America  offered  such  attractions  to  military  men,  that  several 
of  the  most  distinguished  officers  of  English  extraction,  in  the 
French  service,  got  permission  to  go  to  London  to  offer  their  swords 
to  the  k:'ii^.  But  the  insurgent  cause  being  the  most  popular,  num- 
bers of  foreign  officers,  through  the  intervention  of  Beaumarcbais 
and  Deane,  came  over  vc  its  aid.  Of  these  were  Steuben,  Pulaski, 
etc.  Usually,  Congress  retu'^ed  to  ratify  the  engagements  Beau- 
marcbais had  made,  and  many  of  the  new  officers  were  sent  back. 
Thus  they  who  came  in  1777  with  Ducoudray,  on  leave  of  absence 
for  two  years  from  their  corps  in  France,  returned  at  once  in  dis- 
content. A  number,  however,  participated  in  the  battle  of  Brandy- 
wine  before  departing ;  where  T)e  Borre,  who  had  been  made  a 


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general  officer,  incnrred  so  muoh  cftnanre  that  he  threw  tip  his  com- 
mission and  went  home  in  a  great  rage.  "  it  was  not  his  fault," 
he  said,  "  if  American  troops  would  run  away."  Still  Beaumarchais 
refers  to  more  than  a  hundred  whom  he  had  thus  sent  over,  who 
stayed,  and  fought  and  died  here  :  but  liere  hu  is  probably  tallying 
a  little  loosely.  (Beaumarchais ;  CEuv.  Comp.  v.  29,  90 :  Virg.  Hist. 
Reg.  i.  175,  177  :  Gordon ;  ii.  512.)  The  Abb6  Robin  says  the  first 
French  officers  who  came  over  were  a  set  of  swindlers  and  impos- 
tors :  "men  loaded  with  debts,  and  ruined  at  home  in  their  repu- 
tation ;  and  yet,  by  assuming  titles  and  fictitious  names,  they  ob- 
tained distinguishing  ranks  in  the  American  army,  received  ad- 
vances of  money  to  a  considerable  amount,  and  then  immediately 
disappeared."  (New  Travels  through  America,  p.  19.)  And  even 
in  the  auxiliary  army,  there  seems  to  have  been  many  jealousies 
of  each  other  and  of  Rochambeau,  who  had  assented  to  the  resolve 
of  M.  de  Laval  and  others  to  decline  serving  iinder  La  Fayette. 
Though  he  had  obtained  rank  in  America,  the  marquis  was  yet  a 
schoolboy  when  many  of  them  were  French  field-officers.  (Lauzun ; 
ii.  169.) 


16. 


——  and  hold  up  the  Hand.— Fi'sfter  MS. 


Washington  had  hosts  of  enemies-  -not  only  among  the  tories,  who 
openly  calumniated  him  with  their  charges  of  cruelty,  ambition, 
natural  children,  and  the  like — but  also  among  the  whigs  ;  many 
of  whom  opposed  his  appointiient,  disparaged  his  worth,  and  strove 
bitterly  to  degrade  Uim  fn>m  his  cou.'maud. 
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17.  Perhaps  in  allusion  to  th<=  besiegers  of  Boston,  in  1775, 
"  turning  the  Episcopal  church  at  Cambridge  into  a  barrack,  and 
melting  down  the  organ  pipes  into  bullets." 

18.  "  McKean  and  Reed ;  the  former  rebel  chief  justice,  the  latter 
rebel  President  of  Pennsylvania.  Roberts  and  Carlisle,  both  Qua- 
kers, and  virtuous,  inoflFeiisive  citizens."  (Author's  note.)  John 
Roberts  and  Abraham  Carlisle  were  in  1778  hanged  for  treason  at 
Philadelphia :  "  a  city  of  which  their  forefathers  were  among  the 
founders,  in  which  they  themselves  were  born,  and  in  which  they 
had  long  been  universally  respected  and  beloved."  Gen.  Reed  was 
of  counsel  for  the  state  in  the  prosecution,  and  Chief-justice 
McKean  was  the  presiding  judge.  Their  execution  created  a  feel- 
ing in  the  community  that  is  not  yet  worn  out.  A  conviction  had 
not  been  agreed  on  by  the  juries  without  great  reluctance ;  and  it 
is  a  curious  fact  that  on  all  the  other  indictments  for  treason  then 
pending,  there  was  thereafter  no  verdict  of  guilty :  while  the  grand 
inquest  ignored  every  new  bill  sent  to  them. 

19.  "The  rebel  governor  of  Georgia,  driven  from  his  usurped 
authority  by  the  British  forces."  (Author's  note.)  John,  son  of 
Sir  Patrick  Iloustoun,  was  elected  by  the  whigs,  8  Jan.  1778 :  but 
lost  his  chair  by  the  fall  of  Savannah.  See  White  ;  209  ;  211.  J. 
Adams  ;  ii.  422 ;  428. 

20.  "  Henry  and  Jefferson,  rebel  governors  of  Virginia  in  succes- 
sion; the  latter  of  them  so  eminently  barbarous,  as  to  exceed  the 
conception  of  a  British  mind."  (Author's  note.) 


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21.  "Wharton  and  Reed,  rebel  presidents  of  Pennsylvania  in 
succession."  (Author's  note.)  Thos.  Wharton,  jr.  died  ii.  office, 
and  Reed  was  elected  Dec.  1778. 

22.  "  William  Alexander,  Esquire,  claiming  the  title  of  Earl  of 
Stirling;  a  rebel  general."  (Author's  note.)  "lie  is  accused  of 
liking  the  table  and  the  bottle,  full  as  much  as  becomes  a  Lord,  but 
more  than  becomes  a  General.  He  is  brave,  but  without  capacity, 
and  has  not  been  fortunate  in  the  different  commands  with  which 
he  has  been  entrusted."  (Chastellux:  i.  117.)  His  Life,  by  Mr. 
Duer,  is  very  interesting,  and  gives  another  complexion  to  his  cha- 
racter. 

23.  "  Count  Pulaski  met  with  his  death  in  storming  Savannah, 
an  event  which  happened  several  months  after  the  writing  o'  this 
poem — the  prediction  contained  in  it  therefore  has  been  fulfilled 
with  respect  to  the  deserved  fate  of  this  wretched  man."  (Author's 
note.)  Count  Casimir  Pulaski's  legion,  "  badly  equipped  and  worse 
mounted,"  was  "  made  up  of  all  sorts,  chiefly  German  deserters. 
His  officers  were  generally  forei'  ti,  with  some  Americans.  *  *  * 
He  was  sober,  diligent  and  intrepid,  very  gentlemanly  in  his  man- 
ners, and  amiable  in  heart.  He  was  very  reserved,  and,  when 
alone,  betrayed  strong  evidence  of  deep  melancholy.  Those  who 
knew  him  intimately,  spoke  highly  of  the  sublimity  of  his  friend- 
ship, and  the  constancy  of  Lis  virtue."  (White's  Hist.  Coll.  Ga. 
309 :  Lee's  War  in  South.  Dep.  i.  84 ;  108.)  His  Polish  adven- 
tures are  curious :  see  R.  Lamb's  Am.  War ;  Wraxall ;  and  the 
Chevalier  de  Faublas  of  Louvet  de  Couvray.    Capt.  Patrick  Fer- 


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guson  justified  his  own  conduct  at  Little  Egg  Harbor  in  1778  by  the 
untrue  assertion  that  Pulaski,  in  general  orders,  had  forbade  the 
giving  quarter.  The  tale  rested  on  the  information  of  a  deserter : 
"  information,"  says  Mr.  Irving,  "which  proved  to  bo  false."  On 
Aug.  19,  1779,  Pulaski  thus  wrote :  "  Such  has  been  my  lot,  that 
nothing  less  than  my  honor,  which  I  will  never  forfeit,  retains  me 
in  a  service,  which  ill  treatment  makes  me  begin  to  abhor.  Every 
proceeding  respecting  myself  has  been  so  thoroughly  mortifying, 
that  nothing  but  the  integrity  of  my  heart,  and  the  fervency  of  my 
zeal,  supports  me  under  it."  (Gordon:  ii ;  332.) 

24.  "James  Wilson,  Esquire,  bom  in  Scotland :  settled  as  a  law- 
yer in  Pennsylvania,  of  eminence  in  his  profession,  and  amiable  in 
private  life — late  a  member  of  Congress."  (Author's  note.)  In 
Sept.  1777,  he  and  George  Clymer  were  "  superseded"  in  congress 
hy  Joseph  Reed,  Wm.  Cliugan,  and  Dr.  Samuel  Duffield.  He  was 
charged  with  not  having  been  an  original  friend  to  Independence. 
Afterwards,  with  no  just  cause,  he  became  so  odious  to  some  of  the 
Philadelphia  whigs  that  his  liberty,  and  even  his  life,  wero  endan- 
gered by  the  mob. 


25.  "A  merchant  of  Philadelphia,  member  of  Congress."  (Au- 
thor's note.)  Daniel  Roberdeau  was  an  active  whig  in  Philadel- 
phia, and  a  general  of  the  militia. 

2G.  "Doctor  of  Divinity — member  of  Congress."  (Author's 
note.)  Dr.  John  Witherspoon,  whose  confinement  in  Doune  castle 
by  "  Charlie  and  his  men"  in  1746,  is  told  of  in  Home's  Works  (ed. 


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1          !     ifi 

H.  Mackenzie ;)  iii.  169,  got  into  trouble  at  home  by  his  attacks  on 
"  flaws  in  the  principles  and  practice"  of  some  of  the  ministry  and 
laity ;  and  damages  were  obtained  against  him  at  Paisley.  In 
1768 — "  not  from  interested  motives,"  says  his  Scottish  biographer 
— he  accepted  the  charge  of  the  college  of  New  Jersey :  for  which, 
in  1783,  he  went  back  to  Britain  to  ask  aid.  His  failure  was  doubt- 
less owing  to  the  prominent  part  he  had  enacted  in  America  during 
the  war.  (Biog.  Signers ;  v.  99.  Chamber's  Diet.  Em.  Scots,  v. 
437.)  In  compliment  to  him,  Congress  struck  out  the  Scotch  from 
"  the  foreign  mercenary  troops"  of  the  Declaration. 

27.  The  loyalty  of  Scotland  during  the  war  was  conspicuous. 
Thousands  of  men  were  raised  by  the  gentry  for  the  royal  service ; 
and  tho  Address  to  the  king,  in  1777,  of  the  General  Assembly  of 
the  Established  (or  Presbyterian)  Kirk,  in  reference  to  the  Ameri- 
can contest,  breathes  a  spirit  as  uncompromising  as  that  generally 
imputed  to  the  Church  of  England.  (Gordon:  ii;  452.) 

28.  "  Rev.  Mr.  White,  assistant  minister  of  the  churches  at  Phi- 
ladelphia, and  chaplain  of  Congress  jointly  with  Mr.  DufBeld,  a 
presbyterian."  (Author's  note.)  Against  a  character  so  pure  and 
apostolic  as  Bishop  White's,  even  satire  can  insinuate  nothing  save 
that  he  was  at  one  time  in  favor  of  continuing  for  a  season  the  Ame- 
rican Church  without  an  episcopacy.  He  afterwards  suppressed 
his  tract  on  this  subject,  and  it  is  i  ow  very  rare.  During  the  war, 
iMams  says  he  "behaved  with  uniform  candor,  moderation  and 
decorum."  (x.  186.) 

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29.  Win.  Smith,  D.  D.,  provost  of  the  college  at  Philadelphia, 
was  a  man  very  variously  esteeued  by  his  contemporaries.  Of  fine 
literary  abilities,  (Mem.  Hist.  Soc.  Penn.  ii.  pt.  2,  93.  iii.  188.)  his 
namerous  essays,  moral,  poetical,  and  political,  attracted  deserved 
admiration.  lie  took  too  an  early  stand  against  the  ministry:  but 
being  very  obnoxious  to  the  presbyterians  of  the  province,  and  not 
falling  into  all  the  measures  of  the  more  violent  whigs,  he  was  ill- 
treated  by  them.  (Reed's  Reed,  i.  67:  ii.  169.)  J.  Adams  in  1774 
speaks  of  "  Dr.  Smith,  the  famous  Dr.  Smith,  the  provost  of  the  col- 
lege. He  appears  a  plain  man,  tall  and  rather  awkward ;  there  is 
an  appearance  of  art."  A  Philadelphian  had  cautioned  Adams 
against  him,  as  "  looking  up  to  government  for  an  American  Epis- 
copate and  a  pair  of  lawn  sleeves.  Soft,  polite,  insinuating,  adu- 
lating, sensible,  learned,  industrious,  indefatigable."  His  sermon 
before  the  city  militia  in  1775  was  certainly  patriotic,  yet  on  Jan. 
6,  1776,  the  Committee  met  to  enquire  into  the  conduct  and  con- 
versation of  '  Parson  Smith,'  and  Christopher  Marshall  complains 
with  not  a  little  pique  of  the  "equivocal  and  unmeaning"  lan- 
guage of  John  Mease,  the  committee's  witness,  "beneath  the 
dignity  of  a  member  of  society,  much  less  of  this  Committee  and 
of  Safety,  in  order  to  exculpate  the  said  Smith ;"  so  "  that  no  hold 
could,  at  jjresent,  be  taken  of  him"  But  Marshall  was  one  of  the 
doctor's  local  iwlitical  e.iomies.  The  confidence  of  the  community 
must  have  been  unshaken,  since,  Feb.  19,  1776,  we  find  Congress, 
the  Assembly,  the  city  corporation,  the  committee  of  safety,  &o., 
with  Marshall  himself,  marching  in  procession  to  hear  a  discourse 
on  Montgomery  from  Smith  at  "  the  Calvinist  Church  in  Race 
Street."   (Remembrancer:    61;  68.)     He  was  probably  not  warm 


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for  Independence,  since  on  the  question  of  thanking  him  by  Con- 
gress (Feb.  21,)  it  was  successfully  objected  by  Chase,  Adams,  &o., 
that  he  had  declared  the  sentiments  of  that  body  to  still  be  for  de- 
pendency on  England.  W.  Livingston,  Willing,  Wilson  and  Duano 
vere  for  thanking  him.  In  1777,  he  was  included,  as  a  dangerous 
character,  by  the  Executive  Council  of  the  state  in  the  Order  of 
Arrest  o^  Sunday,  Aug.  31st.  His  congregation  seems  to  have  held 
to  him,  however,  and  he  appears  to  have  been  exempted  from  impri- 
sonment by  giving  a  parole,  which  was  discharged  June  30,  1779. 
(Col.  Reo.  xi.  283;  288;  525.)  The  character  of  this  Order,  how- 
ever, ought  to  prevent  any  inferences  from  it ;  and  I  am  not  aware 
of  any  legal  evidence  ever  being  produced  against  him.  Still,  he 
seems  to  have  been  under  a  cloud.  (Adams :  x.  186.)  Greatly 
through  his  exertions,  subscriptions  not  far  short  of  £50.000  had 
been  collected,  in  1762,  for  the  Philadelphia  college.  The  list  was 
headed  by  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  ;  and  as  Smith  was  pro- 
vost, and  Allison,  a  preabyterian,  the  vice-provost,  it  was  generally 
deemed  not  exactly  such  a  sectional  institution  as  those  of  Yale, 
Harvard,  King's,  and  New  Jersey.  There  was  no  undue  religious 
partiality.  But  in  1779,  the  religious  and  political  enemies  of  Dr. 
Smith  being  temporarily  in  power,  the  college  charter  was  abro- 
gated, and  its  funds  given  to  a  new  corporation.  This  step  was  in 
violation  of  a  provision  of  the  constitution  of  1776,  prepared  by  Dr. 
Smith  and  carried  through  by  Dr.  Franklin  expressly  to  cover  the 
college's  case ;  and  was  evidently  induced  by  personal  enmity  to 
the  provost :  testifying,  as  Bishop  White  said,  "  of  what  little  ellect 
are  provisions  put  on  paper,  when  they  interfere  with  the  views  of 
a  dominant  party  in  politics."    Despite  the  legislature's  slights, 


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Dr.  Smith  preserved  the  esteem  of  the  armj.  After  the  war,  he 
was  chosen  by  the  Cincinnati  as  their  orator.  I  have  before  me, 
from  Dr.  Franklin's  library,  a  benevolent  work  published  by  Dr. 
Smith  in  1759.  Appended  to  his  name  on  the  title  page,  are  some 
lines  in  Franklin's  writing.  It  is  curious  to  observe  how  the  private 
sentiment  of  the  doctor  of  laws  for  the  doctor  of  divinity,  after 
being  bottled  up  for  eight  and  ninety  years,  at  last  sees  the  light. 
To  be  sure,  Smith  had  given  ample  cause  of  aifront  when,  in  the 
American  Magazine  for  October,  1758,  he  declared  that  the  electrical 
discoveries  claimed  by  Franklin  were  communicated  to  him  by 
Kinnersley,  to  whom  alone  their  credit  was  due  :  but  still  it  is  not 
likely  that  when  he  wrote  his  famous  eulogy  on  Dr.  Franklin,  he 
had  any  knowledge  of  this  inscription  on  himself.  The  italics,  &o., 
are  Franklin's  own : 


Full  many  a  peevish,  envious,  »la.ndermia  elf 

Ih,  in  Ills  works,  Benevolenco  itself. 

Fur  all  mankind,  unknown,  his  bosom  hoayes, 

He  only  Injures  those  with  whom  he  liycs. 

Read  then  the  Man  ;  dues  truth  his  actions  guide. 

Exempt  from  petulance,  exempt  from  prUle  f 

To  social  duties  dues  his  heart  attend, 

As  son,  as  father,  husband,  brother, /Hend  / 

Do  those  who  know  him  love  him  f  if  they  do, 

You've  my  permission,  you  may  love  him  too. 


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30.  "  Moultrie,  Lincoln,  Elbert,  Ashe — Rebel  generals  employed 
in  the  southward — for  their  feats  of  arms  consult  the  London  Ga- 
zette." (Author's  note.)  The  Fisher  MS.  gives  Elliot  for  Elbert: 
probably  Col.  Bernard  Elliot.  Wm.  Moultrie  and  Benj.  Lincoln 
(Coll.  Mass.  Hist.  Soc.  2nd  S.  iii.  231)  are  well  known.  Samuel 
Elbert  led  the  Georgia  brigade  in  the  defeat  at  Savannah,  Jan.  1779. 


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171 


"Few  cnnqiieBts,"  saya  McCall,  "have  ever  been  made  with  so 
little  loa8  to  the  victor."  He  was  captured  when  Brigadier  Ashe's 
command  was  cut  up,  in  March,  1779 ;  of  which  Lee  says  ;  "  Cen- 
sure cannot  be  withheld  from  Ashe's  inattention  at  Briar  Creek." 
(South.  Camp.  i.  cc.  xi;  zii.  White;  215;  633.)  These  officers 
were  all  active  in  the  war. 


31.  —  wretched,  bloodstain'd,  ornel  pulr.    Fithtr  MS. 

"  Reed  and  M'Kean.  Vide  note  in  the  first  part  of  this  poem." 
(Author's  note. )  Thomas  M'Kean's  opponents  were  not  confined 
to  the  tory  ranks.  His  political  life  in  after  years  brought  out  a 
host  of  enemies ;  the  most  rancorous  of  whom  was  William  Cob- 
bett,  who  boasts  of  having  immoitalized  the  governor  in  ever/ 
country  where  the  English  language  is  spoken.  (See  Porcupine's 
Works  ;  xii :  Index.)  During  the  revolution,  his  most  bitter  an- 
tagonist among  the  whigs  seems  to  have  been  Gen.  Wm.  Thomp- 
son. (Porcupine ;  xi.  47  :  99 :  Pa.  Col.  Rec.  xi.  659.)  He  and  Reed 
do  not  appear  to  have  been  very  warm  friends  in  later  life. 


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32.  "  Nephew  and  heir  of  the  late  Rev'd  Dr.  Peters,  of  Philadel- 
phia, and  Secretary  at  War  to  the  Congress."  (Author's  note.) 
Richard  Peters,  of  facetious  memory,  was  Secretary  of  the  Board  of 
War  of  1776,  and  one  of  the  members  of  the  re-modelled  board  of 
1777.  Chastellux  thus  describes  him  at  a  dinner-party.  "Mr. 
Peters,  the  Minister  at  War,  gave  the  signal  of  joy  and  liberty  by 
favoring  us  with  a  song  of  his  composition,  so  jolly,  and  so  free, 
that  I  shall  dispense  with  giving  either  a  translation  or  an  extract. 
This  was  really  a  very  excellent  song.    He  then  sung  another  more 


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NOTES. 


chaste,  and  more  masioal ;  a  very  fine  Italian  cantabUe.  Mr.  Pe- 
ters is,  unquestionably,  the  Minister  of  the  two  Worlds,  who  haa 
the  best  voice,  and  who  sings  the  best,  tii>-  pathetic  and  the 
bouffon."  He  was  afterwards  for  many  years  a  federal  judge  at 
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33.  The  Scotch-Irish  presbyterians  of  York  and  Cumberland, 
Penn.,  were  thus  called,  probably  for  an  obvious  reason.  See  Ood- 
dard's  Partnership,  &o.,  p.  20;  and  Praise-Ood  Barebones,  (an 
election  ballad  against  Mr.  Dickinson,)  pp.  11-15.  The  reader  will 
recall  Dr.  Johnson's  "old  yellow  wig."  (Colman's  Random  Re- 
cords ;  1.  108.) 

34.  Henry  Laurens,  "late  President  of  Congress.  The  writer  of 
this  piece  had  an  opportunity  of  narrowly  watching  his  conduct, 
and  the  character  here  given  is  the  faithful  result  of  observation ; 
nevertheless  it  must  be  owned  that  some  competent  judges  have 
thought  the  portrait  too  favourable."  (Author's  note.)  He  was  a 
Carolinian  merchant  of  wealth,  honored  by  ihe  world  for  his  in- 
tegrity, generosity  and  hospitality.  In  1769,  some  of  his  ships 
were  seized  for  infractions  of  the  revenue  laws,  and  he  and  Sir 
Egerton  Leigh  published  some  very  curious  tracts.  The  Man  Un- 
masked is  the  title  of  Sir  Egerton's  reply  to  one  by  Laurens:  it 
accuses  L.  of  an  undue  letch  for  popular  favor,  and  gives  some 
interesting  particulars  about  him ;  his  military  title,  blue  uniform 
coat,  mustaches  and  the  like. 


35.  At  the  beginning  of  the  war  there  was  probably,  outside  of 


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New  England,  a  great  aversion  to  Democracies.  With  many  of  the 
leading  whigs  this  repugnance  wus  not  soon  subdued.  In  a  MS. 
before  me,  John  Adams,  in  1806,  says  :  "  I  have  never  doubted 
that  America  wouM  be  added  to  the  vast  catalogue  of  nations  who 
would  not  be  saved  by  precepts  nor  examples.  Nothing  but  a  ba- 
lanced government  can  save  any  nation  from  the  tyranny  of  the 
many,  the  few,  or  the  one,  and  no  nation  ever  was  long  united  in 
understanding  or  preserving  a  balance.  England  has  preserved  it 
longer  than  any  nation  ever  did  before,  and  England  but  imper- 
fectly: and  there  is  reason  to  fear  that  her's  is  approaching  to 
its  end,  to  be  succeeded  by  a  short  dominatio  plebis  and  then  by  an 
emperor."  By  a  balanced  government  he  seems  to  have  meant  an 
hereditary  senate  and  executive.  Thus,  in  1790,  he  wrote :  "  I  will 
candidly  confess  that  an  hereditary  Senate,  without  an  hereditary 
Executive,  would  diminish  the  prerogatives  of  the  President  and 
the  Liberties  of  the  People.  But  I  contend  that  hereditary  descent 
in  both,  when  contronled  by  an  independent  representation  of  the 
people,  is  better  than  corrupted,  turbulent  and  bloody  elections, 
and  the  knowledge  you  have  of  the  human  heart  will  concur  with 
your  knowledge  of  the  history  of  nations  to  convince  you  that  elec- 
tions of  presidents  and  senators  cannot  be  long  conducted  in  a  po- 
pulous, opulent  and  commercial  nation,  without  corruption,  sedition 
and  civil  war." 

36.  "  Rev'd  Dr.  Inglis,  Rector  of  New  York,  a  man  whose  writings 
in  the  cause  of  Truth  and  Loyalty,  of  the  King  and  Constitution,  de- 
serve the  highest  encomiums."  (^Author^s  note.)  Dr.  Charles  Inglis 
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vince  he  was  made  Bishop.  He  died  in  1816,  in  his  82nd  year. 
His  son,  Dr.  John  Inglis,  has  since  been  made  Bishop  of  the  same 
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37.  "  A  lawyer  and  member  of  Congress — a  principal  member  of 
that  detestable  conrention,  which  mined  the  valuable  constitntion 
of  Pennaylrania."  (Author's  note.)  James  Smith  of  York  co. 
Penn :  a  very  eccentric  character,  but  an  early  and  an  extreme 
whig.  Biog.  Signers ;  vii.  179. 

38.  Col.  Thomas  Hartley  of  Chambersburg :  "  a  lawyer  of  the 
same  province,  and  a  colonel  in  the  rebel  service."  (Author's  note.) 

39.  John  Dickinson )  "  a  member  of  Congress — the  reputed  au- 
thor of  the  Farmer's  Letters."  (Author's  note.) 

40.  "Late  a  member  of  Congress:  author  of  many  seditions 
pieces— since  this  poem  was  written  he  died  at  Philadelphia." 
(Author's  note.)  It  is  needless  to  add  more  here  of  W.  H.  Dray- 
ton, since  perhaps  no  reader  can  say  with  Lien  Chi  Altangi; 
"Drayton,  I  replied  1  I  have  never  heard  of  him  before  I"  (Gold- 
smith's Citizen  of  the  World:  letter  xiii.) 


41.  "  Rev'd  Dr.  [Samuel]  Chandler,  long  since  driven  by  the  re- 
bels from  New-Jersey,  now  resident  in  England."  (Author's  note.) 
Daniel  Coxe,  Esq.,  "member  of  his  Majesty's  Council  for  New- 
Jersey,  now  residing  in  New-York."  1,1b.)  And  see  Sabine's  Loy- 
alists, 206 ;  232. 


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42.  *'  Of  New-England,  a  man  famous  for  eveiy  in&my."  (Au- 
thor's note.)  "  After  many  years  of  incessant  exertion,  employed 
in  the  establishment  of  the  independence  of  America,"  Samuel 
Adams  died  in  1803,  says  Rogers  (Am.  Biog.  18.),  "in  indigent  cir- 
cumstances." Like  Hancock,  he  was  buried  in  the  Qranary  burial- 
ground  at  Boston ;  "  and  not  a  stone  tells  where  he  lies."  Mr.  Jas. 
S.  Loriug,  however,  in  his  paper  on  S.  Adams,  ascertains  the  tomb. 
"  His  bones  have  been  gathered  by  his  grandson  into  a  box,  and 
deposited  in  a  comer  of  the  vault."  In  1814,  John  Adams  expresses 
his  dread  of  expiring  "  like  Sam.  Adams,  a  grief  and  distress  to 
his  family,  a  weeping,  helpless  object  of  compassion  for  years." 
The  text  is  again  curiously  illustrated  by  another  letter  of  J.  Ad- 
ams, written  a  few  months  later.  In  speaking  of  himself,  as  hav- 
ing survived  most  of  his  comrades  in  the  war,  he  says :  "  Can  there 
be  any  deeper  damnation  in  this  universe  than  to  be  condemned  to 
a  long  life,  in  danger,  toil,  and  anxiety ;  to  be  rewarded  only  with 
abuse,  insult,  and  slander ;  and  to  die  at  seventy,  leaving  to  an 
amiable  wife  and  nine  amiable  children  nothing  for  an  inheritance 
but  the  contempt,  hatred,  and  malice  of  the  world  ?  How  much 
prettier  a  thing  it  is  to  be  a  disinterested  patriot,  like  Washington 
and  Franklin,  live  and  die  among  the  hosannas  and  adorations  of 
the  multitude,  and  leave  half  a  million  to  one  child  or  no  child !" 
(J.  Adams:  X.  100.  106.) 


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43.  "Lee  and  Silas  Deane,  Congress  Commissioners  in  France." 
(Author's  note.)  Deane,  says  Cheetham,  was  very  illiterate.  The 
reader  will  recollect  that  curious  passage  in  iii.  Dipl.  Corr.  1783—  9, 
p.  428,  where,  (July,  1788,)  Jefferson  writes  to  Jay  that  he  had 


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lately  had  secret  access  for  twentj-four  hours  to  Deane's  letter- 
books,  and  woald  gladly  have  given  50  or  60  guineas  "  to  cut  out 
a  single  sentence  which  contained  evidence  of  a  fact  not  proper  to 
bo  committed  to  the  hands  of  enemies." 


44.  Dr.  Franklin- 


"  Know  ye  not  rac  ?  said  Satan  flH'd  with  scorn, 

"Not  to  know  mo,  arguos  youriieir  unknown."— (Author's  note.) 


45.  This  refers  probably  to  the  Pennsylvania  constitution  of  1776  ; 
made  under  the  eye  of  S.  Adams :  but  bitterly  opposed  by  Cadwal- 
ader  and  many  other  whigs,  and  long  ago  abandoned. 

46.  Gen.  Ewing,  of  Cdmberland  co.  Penn.,  who  was  prevented 
by  the  ice  from  sharing  in  the  glories  of  Trenton. 


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47.  The  Qermans  here  were  notorious  for  their  faith  in  spells  and 
charms.  That  Odell  should  have  been  so  averse  to  Independence 
as  to  class  it  among  these  Qerman  quackeries  is  not  strange.  Even 
among  the  whigs  the  step  had  many  enemies.  When  the  very  Con- 
gress that  declared  Independence  first  met,  there  is  every  reason  to 
think  that  the  measure  was  generally  as  odious  as  the  Stamp-Act 
itself:  and  J.  Adams  (x.  35)  gives  a  vivid  picture  of  the  terror  and 
horror  upon  the  faces  of  a  large  part  of  that  body,  when  it  became 
inevitable.  Even  in  New  England  itself,  the  pear  was  not  every- 
where ripe :  see  the  action  of  New  Hampshire,  in  Jan.,  1776.  At  this 
date,  according  to  Gordon,  Washington  had  no  wish  that  way.  The 
merit  of  conceiving  and  carrying  through  that  happy  event  is 


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claimed,  and  probably  with  justice,  for  Samuel  Adams,  thongh  R. 
H.  Lee  and  Henrj  were  early  in  the  field.  Yet  it  was  some  time 
before  the  minds  of  the  colonies  on  this  side  of  the  Connecticut 
were  filed  to  it,  and  various  adventitious  aids  were  required  to 
bring  about  the  desired  result ;  and  it  is  hardly  too  much  to  say 
that  many  in  the  middle  States  were  regularly  beguiled  into  the 
scheme :  see  Gordon ;  ii.  170  ;  269 :  J.  Adams  ;  ii.  407  ;  412 ;  512 ; 
Coll.  Hist.  Soo.  Penn.  i.  127.  It  is  known  how  long  it  was  fought 
off  in  the  Congress ;  to  which  Adams  seems  to  allude  (z.  29 :), 
when  he  says  Massachusetts  was  "  obliged  to  turn  and  to  flatter,  to 
dissimulate  and  to  simulate ;  in  plain  English,  as  Governor  Hopkins 
once  said,  or  rather  was  accused  of  saying,  to  coax,  lie,  and  flatter 
in  order  to  carry  her  points,  and  save  herself  from  perdition."  And 
Grigsby  (142 ;  161 ;)  tells  us  that  neither  the  Declaration  nor  the 
Confederation  were  unanimously  a'^cepted  by  the  Virginia  conven- 
tion and  assembly. 

48.  "Late  Ambassador  from  the  French  king  to  the  rebel  Con- 
gress. 

Dos  Roig  infortun^s  la  France  tftait  razOe, 
Et  montait  il  rbonneur  par  dee  jastes  degres ; 

A  I'heure  que  Jo  parle  elle  i^  change  da  stile, 
Et  86  vante  I'ami  des  traltres  du  Congrts."  (Author'a  note.) 

M.  G6rard's  portrait  is  in  the  City  Hall  at  Philadelphia.  , 


49.  "  Vide  note  on  the  second  part."  (Author's  note.)  Virginia 
is  signified  by  "the  land  of  Googe ;"  Lt.  Gov.  Gooch  of  that  province 
having  earned  the  ill-will  of  the  Clmroh-and-King  men  by  consent- 
ing, in  1748,  to  the  act  vesting  the  presentation  to  church  benefices 


178 


NOTES. 


in  the  restries.    Chalmers  attribntes  improper  motives  to  him. 
He  was  a  Scot,  moreover,  and  a  friend  to  Fresbyterianism. 


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60.  "Major-Commandant  at  Fort  Detroit  and  its  dependencies: 
he  was  snrprized  by  a  partj  of  rebels,  and  carried  prisoner  to  Wil 
liamsburgh."  (Anther's  note.)  Henry  Hamilton,  Lient.-Qor.  of 
Detroit,  was  oaptnred  at  St.  Vincent's,  Feb.  24,  1779,  by  Clark's 
command.  The  ai-tioles  of  surrender,  agreed  to  by  him  "  with  oon- 
tidence  in  a  generous  enemy,"  provided  that  the  officers  should  be 
prisoners  of  war,  and  allowed  their  necessary  baggage.  The  expe- 
dition having  been  fitted  out  by  Virginia,  he  was  placed  in  the 
hands  of  that  government;  and  on  June  16, 1779,  his  case  was  thus 
disposed  of  by  the  governor  and  council  at  Williamsburg.  "  This 
board  has  resolved  to  itdvise  the  governor  that  the  said  Henry 
Hamilton,  Philip  Dejean,  and  Wm.  Lamothe,  prisoners  of  war,  be 
put  in  irons,  confined  in  the  dungeon  of  the  public  jail,  debarred 
the  use  of  pen,  ink  and  paper,  and  excluded  all  converse  except 
with  their  keeper. — And  the  governor  orders  accordingly."  (Penn. 
Packet,  June  22, 1779.  Penn.  Evening  Post,  July  3, 1779.  Gordon, 
vol.  iii.)  Hamilton  was  kept  fourteen  months  before  enlargement. 
(Rivington  :  Nov.  25, 1780.) 

51.  Years  before,  Whitefield  had,  in  his  own  phrase,  so  well 
"  stirred  the  dry  bones"  of  Philadelphia,  that  his  very  words  had 
perhaps  become  traditional  there. 


62.  Chas.  Thomson,  Hecretary  of  Congress :  of  whom  the  late  Mrs. 
Deborah  Logan,  of  Stenton,  related  that  during  his  latter  days  she 


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often  found  him  examining  and  destrojing  parcels  of  old  letters 
and  papers.  He  explained  this  to  her,  saying  that  what  he  destroyed 
would  have  th;)  effect,  if  known,  of  damaging  many  rerolutionary 
reputations  that  now  stood  high :  that  the  parties  concerned  were 
dead  and  gone,  and  he  did  not  wish  to  bring  shame  on  their  de- 
scendants. 

Of  David  Rittenhonse,  the  subject  of  Odell's  next  paragraph,  J. 
Adams  thus  wrote  in  1814:  ''Rittenhonse  was  a  virtuous  and 
amiable  man ;  an  exquisite  mechanician,  master  of  the  astronomy 
known  in  his  time,  an  expert  mathematician,  a  patient  calculator 
of  numbers.  *  *  «  *  In  politics,  Rittenhonse  was  good,  simple, 
ignorant,  well-meaning,  Franklinian,  democrat,  totally  ignorant  of 
the  world  as  an  anchorite,  an  honest  dupe  of  the  French  revolu- 
tion,  a  mere  instrument  of  Jonathan  Sergeant,  Dr.  Hutchinson, 
Genet,  and  Mifflin."  (x.  90.) 

53.  Rev.  Geo.  Duffield,  D.  D.,  a  chaplain  of  congress.  In  1773, 
ho  was  installed  minister  of  the  3rd  Presbyterian  Church  at  Phila- 
delphia, after  much  opposition  on  account  of  his  "  Whiggism,"  say 
some ;  of  his  "  New  Light,"  say  others.  There  are  many  anecdotes 
of  his  political  preaching.  "  At  one  time,  just  before  the  battle  of 
Trenton,  he  rebuked  his  people  because  there  were  so  many  men  in 
the  house,  saying  there  '  would  be  one  less  to-morrow,  and  no  lec- 
ture on  Wednesday  evening  1' "  The  British  are  said  to  have  offered 
JCSOO  for  his  head.  His  only  published  sermon  that  I  know  of  is 
on  the  Peace,  from  the  text :  '  And  the  Lord  spake  unto  the  Fish, 
and  it  vomited  out  Jonah  upon  the  dry  land.'  See  Webster's 
Presb.  Ch.  in  Am.  672. 


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54.  Perhaps  Al«x.  Carmiohael ;  in  1776,  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee at  Morristovn,  N.  J. 

55.  ReT.  Elihn  Spencer  and  Rev.  James  Caldwell,  presbyterian 
clergy  of  New  Jersey.  The  last  was  deputy  quarter-master  general, 
and  was  shot  by  a  soldier  of  his  own  party,  Nor.  24, 1781. 


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56.  Perhaps  Samuel  Tucker,  of  Burlington ;  in  1776,  appointed 
to  the  Supreme  Bench  of  New  Jersey. 

67.  Of  one  branch  of  the  Shippen  family,  the  father,  Edward,  was 
a  whig.  His  son  Edward,  the  chief  justice,  whose  daughter  mar- 
ried Arnold,  was  a  moderate  tory  ;  but  he  refused  to  take  an  active 
part  for  the  crown.  His  'son,  indeed,  was  a  little  compromised  with 
Howe,  but  Washington  readily  passed  the  affair  over.  The  other 
branch  was  decidedly  whig.  Adams  often  mentions  them  in  1774 ; 
dining  and  breakfasting  with  them.  Mrs.  S.  was  a  sister  of  A. 
Lee;  "a  religious  and  reasoning  lady."  Capt.  Wm.  Shippen,  k.  at 
Princeton,  3  Jan.  1776,  was  douotless  of  this  family ;  as  also  Dr. 
Wm.  Shippen,  sen.,  a  member  of  the  congress.  In  1778,  Dr.  Rush 
preferred  very  grave  charges  against  Dr.  W.  Shippen,  director- 
general  of  the  hospitals.  He  was,  however,  acquitted  by  congress 
and  the  court-martial.  (Qordon,  iii.  70  ;  476.)  His  portrait  is  in  the 
City  Hall  at  Philadelphia.  It  must  be  noted  that  the  text  is  not 
less  severe  on  Inke-warm  tories  than  on  ultra  whigs. 

58.  Robert  Yates  of  New  York :  a  wise  and  good  man,  and  an  up- 
right lawyer.    On  the  bench,  he  was  noted  for  his  justice ;  and 


NOTES. 


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many  an  unpopular  person  charged  with  toryiflm,  owed  his  safety 
to  the  firmness  of  a  judge  who  did  not  hesitate  to  send  back  an  in- 
temperate j  ury  four  times,  rather  than  receive  its  improper  verdict 
in  such  a  case.  He  was  poor ;  and  his  salary,  in  the  depreciated 
currency  of  the  day,  was  just  sufficient,  as  he  said,  "  to  purchase  a 
pound  of  green  tea  for  liis  wife :"  but  lie  would  never  consent  to  in- 
crease his  fortune  by  speculating  in  the  confiscated  estates  of  his 
neighbors.  "  I  will  sooner  die  a  beggar,"  he  said,  "  than  own  a  foot 
of  land  acquired  by  such  means."  Chief  Justice  Yates  died  in 
18U1,  poor  and  full  of  honours.  (Rogers:  Am.  Biog.  Diet.) 

59.  John  and  Richard  Penn.  The  latter,  the  most  popular  of  our 
old  governors,  was  a  private  man  when  Congress  met  in  1774,  and 
lived  on  good  terms  with  the  whigs.  In  Sept.  of  that  year,  Adams 
notes  in  his  Diary :  "  Dined  with  Mr.  R.  Penn ;  a  magnificent 
house,  and  a  most  splendid  feast,  and  a  very  large  company.  Mr. 
Dickinson  and  General  Lee  were  there,  and  Mr.  Moylan,  besides  a 
great  number  of  the  delegates."  A  fortnight  after,  he  meets  Penn 
again  at  a  dinner  party  at  John  Dickinson's.  It  is  probable  that 
both  the  Penns  were  then  in  favour  of  the  redress  of  American 
grievances ;  though  neither  of  them  advocated  independence.  In 
1775,  Richard  went  to  Englau'  -  ad,  with  Arthur  Lee,  was  chosen 
by  Congress  to  present  the  last  j,  iition  to  the  king.  On  Nov.  11, 
1775,  he  was  examined  before  the  House  of  Lords  on  the  duke  of 
Richmond's  motion,  when  his  testimony  was  very  favourable  to  the 
Amoricans.  He  is  the  Penn  spoken  of  in  Boswell's  Johnson ; — 
"my  worthy,  social  friend."  Gov.  John  Penn,  if  more  reserved  to 
the  whigs,  was  still  free  from  incurring  their  hatred.  It  is  true 
11 


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that  with  Chief  Justice  Chow  he  was  sent  prisoner  to  Virginia  in 
1777  ;  but  the  province,  with  a  sense  of  Justice  unusual  when  bills 
of  confiscation  are  pending,  reserved  to  tlie  Penn  family  a  linnd- 
Borae  share  of  its  imperial  inheritance ;  the  most  stupendous  estate 
in  America. 


i<-'. 


60.  Thomas  Willing,  the  partner  of  Robert  Morris :  b.  1731 :  d. 
1821.  He  was  a  leading  merchant  in  Philadelphia,  and  of  great 
wealth.  His  firm,  for  instance,  had  from  the  king  of  Spain  a  mo- 
nopoly to  supply  flour  to  Louisiana  :  and  as  the  government  alone 
made  $20,000  per  an.  by  the  affair,  we  may  judge  the  profits  of  Wil- 
ling and  Morris  were  not  small.  (I.  Smyth's  Tour,  377.)  The  house, 
when  the  war  began,  engaged  largely  in  obtaining  stores  of  war  for 
Congress.  When  Howe  occupied  Philadelphia,  Mr.  W.  did  not 
leave  the  city ;  and  Galloway  says  he  himself  was  sent  to  admin- 
ister the  royal  oath  of  allegiance  to  him,  which  was  refused.  Full 
of  his  chimerical  notions  of  a  reconciliation,  Howe  revoked  the 
order,  and  made  Mr.  W.  *'  his  confidential  negotiator  with  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Congress."  Mr.  W.  was  a  firm  whig,  and  therefore  dis- 
liked by  the  tories :  (but  see  Adams,  x.  411.)  A  younger  brother, 
Capt.  James  Willing,  was  active  in  arms  for  the  Americans.  Back- 
ed by  the  Spaniards,  he  made  some  successful  excursions  on  the 
Mississippi  settlements,  till  he  was  crippled  by  the  resistance  of 
Charles  Percy  and  other  British  half-pay  officers  settled  there. 
(Penn.  Evg.  Post,  July  2,  1778.  Waile's  Miss.  Rep.)  In  other 
parts  of  West  Florida  he  was  less  fortunate.  "  Various  efforts  were 
made  by  Capt.  James  Willing,  of  Philadelphia,  and  Oliver  Pollock, 
the  agents  of  the  Continental  Congress,  to  seduce  them  from  their 


NOTES. 


183 


allegiance.  Thuse  gentlemen  oame  hy  way  of  New  Orleans  to  Mo- 
bile, and  circulated  clandestinely  many  copies  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence.  But  the  efl'ort  was  abortive.  After  many  narrow 
escapes,  Capt.  Willing  was  at  length  apprehended  through  the  vigi- 
lance of  the  British  officers,  and  was  kept  closely  confined,  a  part 
of  the  time  in  irons,  in  the  Stone  Keep  of  Fort  Cliarlotte.  He  came 
near  expiating  his  temerity  upon  a  gallows  in  the  plaza  in  front  of 
that  fortress,  but  was  eventually  exchanged,  at  the  close  of  the  year 
1779,  for  Col.  Hamilton  of  Detroit,  a  British  officer,  upon  whom  our 
government  had  retaliated  for  the  rigorous  treatment  of  the  impri- 
soned agent."  (Trans.  Ala.  Hist.  Soc.  1855,  p.  17.) 


'        .'. 


61.  The  Hamilton  family  was  of  great  consequence  in  Pennsyl- 
vania. More  to  Andrew  Hamilton  tlian  to  any  other  do  we  owe  the 
old  State-House,  and  perhaps  Clirist-Church.  Its  head  in  177G  was 
governor  James  Hamilton,  whom  J.  Adams  occasionally  met  at  din- 
ner, in  1774.  He  died  during  the  war,  after  having  been  arrested 
by  the  whigs  as  a  dangerous  character.  It  is  probable  that  he  was 
equally  opposed  to  ministerial  oppression  and  to  colonial  independ- 
ency. He  took  no  active  part  on  either  side ;  as  in  fact  did  none 
of  the  "  large-acred"  tories  of  this  region.  His  nephew,  the  late 
Wm.  Hamilton,  is  said  to  have  raised  a  regiment  for  the  Americans 
at  his  own  cost,  but  to  have  disbanded  it  when  he  saw  independ- 
ence aimed  at.  He  was  tried  for  high-treason,  Oct.  16,  1778;  a 
few  days  after  Carlisle  had  been  sentenced  to  death.  The  case 
was  twelve  hours  in  getting  to  the  jury,  who  acquitted  him  in 
four  minutes.  I  am  told  his  offence  lay  in  granting  permits,  on  be- 
half of  Howe,  to  enter  the  British  lines  near  his  residence  at  Gray's 


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Ferry ;  and  that  Mrs.  Gray,  who  was  reliod  on  to  prove  the  fact, 
slipt  away  to  Carolina  on  the  eve  of  the  trial,  rather  than  appear 
against  liim.  Had  he  been  convicted,  there  is  no  donbt  that  his 
life,  as  well  as  hia  great  estate,  would  have  been  forfeited.  Ho  was 
a  near  neighbor  and  friend  of  llartram  tlio  botanist,  whose  tastes  he 
shared.  The  splendid  conservatories  of  the  Woodlands  are  still 
well  recollected  at  Philadelphia. 

62.  Benjamin  Chew  of  Philadelphia,  who  in  1772  was  made  Chief 
Justice.  At  the  Revolution  he  seems  anxious  to  have  remained 
neutral,  (Littell'a  Graydon,  117,  290,)  though  his  son  joined  one  of 
the  military  associations,  and  was  probably  the  Lieut.  Chew  of  Bas- 
set's Delaware  Light  Horse,  named  in  the  Penn.  Packet,  Jan.  17. 
1777.  Adams  speaks  of  a  dinner  party  at  the  Chief  Justice's  in 
Sept.  1774.  "  We  were  shown  into  a  grand  entry  and  stair  case, 
and  into  an  elegant  and  most  magnificent  chamber,  until  dinner. 
About  four  o'clock,  we  were  called  down  to  dinner.  The  furniture 
was  all  rich.  Turtle,  and  every  other  thing,  flummery,  jellies, 
sweetmeats  of  twenty  sorts,  trifles,  whipped  sillabubs,  floating 
islands,  fools,  &c.  and  then  a  dessert  of  fruits,  raisins,  almonds, 
pears,  peaches.  Wines  most  excellent  and  admirable.  I  drank 
Madeira  at  a  great  rate,  and  found  no  inconvenience  in  it."  In 
August,  1779,  he  was  arrested  on  suspicion  of  being  a  secret  tory, 
and  sent  to  Virginia  ;  but  in  the  next  year  released  on  his  parole. 
It  is  proper  to  say  that  he  offered  to  give  his  parole  before  he  was 
sent  away.  (Penn.  Arch.  v.  614.)  "  He  was,  after  the  peace,  Pre- 
sident of  the  Court  of  Errors  and  Appeals,  and  died  in  1809,  at  a 
very  advanced  age."  (I.  Reed's  Reed,  303.) 


NOTES. 


186 


Tlie  minutenuss  with  which  Mr.  AdaoiB  iots  down  tho  details  of 
every  line  dinner  and  flne  houRe  he  waa  invited  to,  is  an  amuHing 
liut  interesting  feature  of  his  Diary. 

63.  Alex.  MuDougall,  Wm.  Maxwell  and  Petor  Muhlejiborg  wore 
all  Amorioan  generals.  Of  the  first,  J.  Adams  snys  in  1774:  "He 
is  a  very  sensible  man,  and  an  open  one.  He  hns  none  of  the  mean 
cunning  which  disgraces  so  many  of  my  countrynion."  Mr.  Adams 
(x.  121)  also  gives  a  very  interesting  passage  respecting  Mulilen- 
berg. 

64.  George  Baylor,  a  favourite  of  Washington,  and  colonel  of  a 
regiment  of  horse  raised  in  Virginia,  in  1777.  His  corps,  like 
Tarloton's,  may  have  been  clothed  during  tho  summer  months  in 
white :  but  there  is  reason  to  suppose  tho  uniform  of  all  our  cavalry 
regiments  during  the  war  was  white,  faced  with  blue.  At  least, 
Cols.  W.  Washington  and  H.  Lee  are  thus  represented  in  tlie  col- 
lection of  original  revolutionary  portraits  in  the  City  Hall,  Phila- 
delphia. Baylor's  command  was  cut  to  pieces,  Sept.  27,  1778,  in  a 
night-surprise  by  the  liritish  light-troops  under  Orey,  *he  ancestor 
of  the  Reform  peer.  Henry  Knox  was  our  artillery  general.  It  is 
probable  he  occasionally  wore  the  favourite  New  England  full-dress 
— a  suit  of  black. 


65.  The  Livingstons  seem  to  have  been  the  chief  freeholders  of 
Poughkeepsie  at  this  period.  In  the  London  Morning  Chronicle, 
during  the  summer  of  1777,  J.  Watts  proposes  to  the  Ministry  that 
as  Albany,  Dutchess  and  Westchester  counties,  N.  Y.,  were  mainly 

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186 


NOTES. 


t'.e  manors  of  the  Van  Rensselaer,  Phil  ipse,  Livingston  and  Boek- 
man  families,  the  grants  shoiild  be  declared  void,  and  their  farms 
given  in  freehold  to  their  tenants,  provided  they  take  up  arms  for 
the  king.  This,  he  thought,  would  bring  COCO  able  farmers  into 
the  field. 


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66.  Maj.  Gen.  W.  Heath  had  charge  of  Burgoyne's  oonvontion 
troops,  near  Boston.  The  text  probably  refers  to  the  stabbing  of 
an  unarmed  British  soldier  by  Capt.  llenloy,  who  was  court-mar- 
tialled  therefor,  and  acquitted.  See  also  Heath's  angry  correspond- 
ence with  Gen.  Phillips,  respecting  the  killing  of  Lt.  Richard  Brown, 
a  convention  prisoner,  by  an  American  sentry,  at  Charlestown,  Mass., 
17  June,  1778.  From  the  initials.  Heath  would  seem  to  bo  the  ge- 
neral alluded  to  by  Washington,  in  R.  II.  Lee's  Mem.,  ii.  14. 


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67.  Gen.  Tliomas  Mifflin,  afterwards  President  of  Congress  and 
Governor  of  Pennsylvania.  The  charge  in  the  text  seems  false, 
though,  in  later  years,  by  the  neglect  of  private  for  public  interests, 
his  circumstances  became  embarrassed,  lie  was  one  of  Cobbett's 
victims.  He  had  strong  enemies,  both  in  Congress  and  the  army, 
among  those  opposed  to  Washington's  removal.  In  the  politics  of 
the  state,  he  was  the  opponent  of  Gen.  Reed,  to  whom  an  allusion 
is  made  that  seems  to  connect  with  what  Gen.  Greene  writes  to 
Chas.  Pettit  (July  24,  1779;  MS.):  "I  cannot  think  Governor 
Read's  apprehensions  are  well  ff>unded.  Neither  can  I  conceive 
you  and  Col.  Cox  to  be  in  any  danger  from  popular  resentment. 
The  voice  of  every  sensible  man  is  with  you.  However,  you  know 
more  of  the  temper  of  the  people  than  I  do,  and  can  judge  better 


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NUTKS. 


187 


with  ro8iwct  to  tlio  nioasunm  you  ouglit  to  tnko  for  your  owu  sftfoty. 
Uovornor  lioad  ia  much  iniMtakcu  if  hu  thinks  tlio  voicu  of  a  moiu- 
ber  of  that  body  [Con,i;rcMH]  in  ns  it  ouuo  was  liko  thu  truuipot  of  nn 
nrchangi'l  Houmling  the  nlnnu.  Tho  ihhijiIo  aro  as  Jtialouw  «)f  tliom 
as  of  any  otlu>r  onlor  of  men  :  and  it's  not  inipiolmlilo  lt«<f«)ro  tlio 
storm  is  ovor  somo  of  thoui  niny  fool  tho  effoots  of  tliat  joalousy 
which  thoy  have  Ikmiu  hu  itiHtruniontal  and  industrious  in  pultiii:; 
in  motion,     (iod  grant  Justi(!0  may  b«  done." 


68.  Horatio  Gates,  says  Mr.  Irving,  was  tho  son  of  a  captain  in 
tlio  British  army,  unlctss  lloraoo  Walpolo  was  his  fatlier  as  well  as 
his  godfather.  Whether  this  insinuation  be  true  or  not  (ami  cer- 
tainly tho  manner  in  whieh  Walpole  passes  from  his  godson's  name 
to  the  aneudote  of  his  brother's  seuoixl-eliambermaid  does  not  con- 
tradict tho  notion),  I  am  very  doubtful  if  his  father  had  any  mili- 
tary rank.  Odell's  language  conv«»ys  the  very  opposite  idea  ;  and 
tradition  reports  him  to  have  been  a  butcher,  in  Kensington,  liOn- 
don.  ()en.  (tates  married  a  sistor  of  Capt.  Phillips,  of  the  grena- 
diers of  the  l^.'ith,  who  was  killed  by  tho  whig  militia,  in  .lersey. 
In  Choetham's  I'aine,  p.  278,  is  a  oharacteristic  reply  of  the  inlldol 
to  Mrs.  Gates,  at  her  dinner  table,  in  1802.  The  general's  son,  and 
only  child,  died  suddenly,  in  1780,  in  his  IHth  year.  There  is  a 
conversation  of  24th  Apr.,  1778,  recorded  in  Gilpin's  Kxiles,  p.  227, 
which,  had  Odell  known,  might  have  mollifled  his  anger.  It  refers 
to  the  parliamentary  stops  to  conciliation  :  "at  all  of  which  (}«n. 
Gates  seemed  much  pleased,  and  sai<l  ho  thought  Great  Britain  had 
agreed  to  all  the  Anutricans  had  heretofore  asked  or  contended  for." 
lu  connection  with  his  estrangement  from  Wasliin^^ton,  a  passage 


\  1 


188 


MOTES. 


may  be  noted  in  Dujkinck's  Freneau — "  that  radoal  Frenean,"  as 
Washington  called  him,  when  his  public  measures  fell  under  the 
journalist's  lash.  On  his  visits  to  New  York,  "with  Qates  he  com- 
pared the  achievements  at  Monmouth  with  those  at  Saratoga." 
Monmouth  is  said  to  have  been  badlj  fought,  and  Lee's  friends 
gave  its  errors  to  Washington.  But  whatever  his  demerits  on  the 
score  of  the  Cabal,  (and  he  denied  this  charge  most  solemnly,)  Oates 
certainly  was  treated  with  harshness — perhaps  injustice — by  the 
Congress  of  1780. 


69.  Arthur  St.  Clair,  an  English  officer  who,  like  Montgomery, 
was  with  Wolfe  at  Quebec,  and  was  afterwards  an  American  gene- 
ral. "  He  was  bom  in  Scotland,  where  he  has  still  a  family  and 
property."  (Chastellnx;  i.  146.)  This  brave  but  unfortunate  sol- 
dier died  in  indigence,  unjustly  neglected  by  his  country.  His 
portrait  is  in  the  City  Hall,  Philadelphia. 


70.  In  this  passage  only  do  I  suppress  names  given  in  the  text. 
The  reason  is  obvious.  The  charge  is  not  only  as  I  believe  untrue, 
but  revolting ;  and  there  are  persons  embraced  in  it  who  are  hardly 
yet  cold  in  their  graves. 


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71.  John  Sullivan,  of  whom  Washington  says :  "  He  is  active, 
spirited,  and  zealously  attached  to  the  cause.  He  has  his  wants 
and  he  has  his  foibles.  The  latter  are  manifested  in  his  little 
tincture  of  vanity,  and  in  an  over  desire  of  being  popular,  which 
now  and  then  lead  him  into  embarrassments.  His  wants  are  com- 
mon to  us  all.     He  wants  experience  to  move  upon  a  grand  scale  ; 


NOTES. 


189 


for  the  limited  and  contracted  knowledge  which  any  of  Wi  have  in 
military  matters  stands  in  very  little  stead.  Gordon  alleges  that 
at  Long  Island  he  was  "too  inattentive  and  confident,"  and  gives  a 
curious  anecdote.  Burke,  a  member  of  the  Congress,  wrote  to  Sul- 
livan :  "  I  was  present  at  the  action  of  Brandywine,  and  saw  and 
heard  enough  to  convince  me  that  the  fortune  of  the  day  was  injured 
by  miscarriages  where  yon  commanded."  "  That  memorable  skir- 
mish at  Newport"  (to  use  the  phrase  of  the  Sir  Ruinous  of  Beaumont 
and  Fletcher),  is  well  known:  and  of  the  Susquehannah  campaign, 
Gordon  gives  a  most  unfriendly  account.  He  says  that  in  the 
whole  there  were  11  Indians  killed;  two  old  squaws,  a  negro,  and 
a  white  man  taken ;  and  that  Sullivan's  conduct  was  so  pulled  to 
pieces  in  Congress,  that  he  resigned  his  commission.  The  stores 
he  required,  (such  as  "  a  large  number  of  eggs,"  casks  of  tongues, 
and  the  like,)  seem  especially  to  have  stirred  the  Roxbury  parson's 
ire.  "  He  kept  a  most  extravagant  table,  and  entertained  all  the 
officers  upon  the  plea  of  securing  his  influence  among  them,  while 
he  was  making  extremely  free  in  their  presence  with  the  characters 
of  the  Congress  and  the  board  of  war."  Gen.  Greene  thus  refers 
to  the  expedition  (July  29,  1779,  MS.)  :  "  If  the  Duke  da  Sully 
don't  push  his  affairs,  but  suffers  our  frontiers  to  be  ravaged  with 
a  handful  of  Indians  when  lie  has  a  force  of  between  4  and  5000  men 
with  him,  it  will  make  him  less  than  little,  and  confirm  Governor 
Reed's  observation  that  he  is  a  child  of  disappointment,  and  never 
can  succeed  in  anything  he  undertakes." 


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72.  The  satirist  here  avails  himself  of  the  difference  between  the 
language  of  the  '  spirited  resolves'  of  Suffolk  ooouty,  Mass.,  en- 


r«iiw*<^w  ii»iiiirff.i^ 


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190 


NOTES. 


dorsed  by  Congress,  Sept.  17, 1774 ;  and  that  of  the  petitions  to  the 
King.  So,  too,  the  Congress  of  1774,  in  its  resolves  of  Oct.  14 ;  the 
articles  of  association ;  and  the  addresses  to  the  people  of  the  colo* 
nies,  and  of  Qreat  Britain,  expressed  its  indignation  at  the  '  Quebec 
Act,'  which  sustained  in  Canada  "  a  religion  that  has  deluged  your 
island  in  blood,  and  dispersed  impiety,  bigotry,  persecution,  mur- 
der and  rebellion  through  every  part  of  the  world."  In  Feb.  1776, 
however,  Franklin,  Chase,  and  Carroll  of  CarrolUon  were  sent  by 
Congress,  with  Dr.  John  Carroll,  afterwards  the  first  R.  C.  Arch- 
bishop of  the  U.  S.,  to  operate  on  the  Canadians.  They  failed  ut- 
terly. A  year  before,  the  principal  French  at  Montreal  had  ex- 
amined the  proceedings  of  Congress,  and  were  highly  provoked  on 
comparing  the  more  recent  compliments  passed  on  their  race,  with 
the  language  above  qttoted.  "  Oh !  the  perfidious,  double-faced  Con- 
gress I"  they  cried — "let  us  bless  and  obey  our  benevolent  Prince, 
whose  humanity  is  consistent,  and  extends  to  all  Religions  ;  let  us 
abhor  all  who  would  reduce  us  from  our  loyalty  by  acts  that  would 
dishonour  a  Jesuit,  and  whose  Addresses,  like  their  Resolves,  are 
destructive  of  their  own  objects."  (Am.  Arch.  ii.  231.  Carroll's 
Journal,  well  edited  by  Mr.  Mayer,  in  Pub.  Md.  Hist.  Soc.  1845. 
Chastellnx  ;  ii.  288.)  What  is  said  in  the  text  of  Congress  going 
to  Mass.,  probably  refers  to  Sunday,  July  4, 1779  :  "  At  noon,  the 
President  and  Members  of  Congress,  with  the  President  and  Chief 
Magistrates  of  this  State,  and  a  number  of  other  gentlemen  and 
ladies,  went,  by  invitation  from  the  honourable  the  Minister  of 
France,  to  the  Catholic  Chapel,  where  the  great  event  was  celebrated 
by  a  well-adapted  discourse,  pronounced  by  the  Minister's  Chap- 
lain, and  Te  Deum  solemnly  sung  by  a  number  of  very  good  voices, 


NOTES. 


191 


accompanied  by  the  organ  and  other  kinds  of  music."  (Penn.  Gaz. 
Philadelphia,  July  7 ;  1779.) 

73.  On  request  of  a  delegate  from  North  Carolina,  wliere  so  many 
of  the  Scotch  settlers  were  violently  loyal,  the  presbytery  (Dec.  26, 
1775,)  sent  Rev.  Elihu  Spencer  thither,  "  to  unite  the  people  in  the 
cause  of  independence.  McWhorter  went  with  him.  They  accom- 
plished little,  as  Franklin  predicted  on  the  first  mention  of  the 
scheme."  (Webster's  Presb.  Ch.  in  Am.  590.) 

74.  Local  officers  of  London :  the  last  three  being  friends  of  Ame- 
rica. In  parliament,  Wilkes  and  Bull  supported  Lord  Granby's 
motion  of  Nov.  20, 1777 ;  when  Wilkes  compared  the  conduct  of  the 
ministry  and  Burgoyne  to  "  the  dictates  of  Samuel  and  the  orders 
of  Saul,  an  infamous  Priest  and  more  infamous  King."  (Penn.  Led- 
ger, Supp.  March  2,  1778.) 

75.  The  text  is  not  much  astray  in  attributing  Payne's  arrival 
here  to  Franklin's  suggestions :  but  the  latter  did  not  see  Common 
Sense  till  it  was  written.  Rush  claims  to  have  suggested  its  pro- 
duction and  name.  The  story  of  his  misdoings  while  connected 
with  Congress  is  fully  told  by  Adams,  Cobbett  and  Cheetham.  *  Ri- 
vington's  lying  gazette,'  says  he  was  publicly  horsewhipped,  caned, 
and  pummelled  at  Philadelphia,  in  1778,  by  whigs  whom  he  had 
affronted;  and  that  Col.  White,  of  the  Virginia  Light  Dragoons, 
wore  out  a  supple-jack  on  his  shoulders.  Judge  Henry  of  Lancas- 
ter, a  really  reliable  witness,  gives  a  similar  story  on  the  authority 
of  Col.  Atlee,  who,  coming  from  a  dinner  party  in  company  with 


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Col.  Francis  Johnston  and  Mr,  Matthias  Slough,  met  Payne  in  Mar- 
ket-street. "There  comes  Common  Sense,"  said  Atlee.  "D — n 
him,"  replied  Slough,  "  I  shall  common  sense  him,"  and  with  the 
word  he  fell  on  Payne,  and  left  him  prostrate  on  his  back  in  a  filthy 
and  offensive  kennel.  The  abject  conclusion  of  his  miserable 
career  is  well  known ;  and  Cheetham  furnishes  us  with  many  dis- 
gusting details  of  his  life. 


11     i. 


76.  "  Supposed  to  be  a  gentleman  formerly  confidante  to  Lord  C. 
M.,  and  then  loaded  with  all  the  odium  of  the  patriots,  on  account 
of  his  attachment  to  government.  He  was  appointed  one  of  the 
Judges  in  South-Carolina  by  a  Lieutenant-Governor ;  but  the  ap- 
pointment was  not  confirmed,  and  another  gentleman  was  sent  out 
from  home  :  immediately  on  which,  as  it  happened,  Mr.  D.  turned 
flaming  patriot.  At  least,  it  is  so  reported."  (Note  in  Penn.  Ledger.) 
Lord  Charles  Greville  Montagu,  late  governor  of  Carolina,  and  Wil- 
liam-Henry Drayton  of  Drayton  Hall  on  Ashley  River,  are  here  re- 
ferred to. 


77.  "  The  uniform  of  the  South-Carolina  rebels  is  a  hunting-shirt, 
such  as  the  farmers'  servants  in  England  use."  (Note  in  Penn. 
Ledger.) 


78.  "  These  lines  allude  to  D.'s  ordering  a  little  fleet  of  schooners 
to  be  fitted  out  from  the  port  of  Charlestown.  On  board  of  one  of 
them  he  ordered  24  nine-pounders ;  but  she  was  so  small  that  it 
was  found  she  could  not  even  float  with  above  twelve  of  such  guns 
on  board."  (Note  in  Penn.  Ledger.) 


,  A  >-'»-  ■'-  \\i. 


I>  ill  AtmimTin 


NOTES. 


198 


79.  "  The  deputy  paymaster-geueral  of  the  king's  army ;  who 
also  fled  on  board  the  Asia,  and  continually  walked  the  quarter- 
deck."  (MS.  note.) 


80.  The  three  active  elements  of  American  Opposition  are  here 
well  hit  off.  The  hulk  of  the  colonists  being  dissenters,  and  in  the 
northern  provinces,  mainly  presbyterians,  there  was  nothing,  says 
Mr.  Adams,  (x.  186 :)  that  more  excited  the  people  '  to  close  think- 
ing on  the  constitutional  authority  of  parliament  over  the  colonies,' 
than  the  apprehension  of  an  American  Episcopacy.  As  early  as 
1712-13,  Dean  Swift  had  been  mentioned  for  the  prospective  see  of 
New  York  (Swift :  ed.  Nichols ;  xv.  261 :)  ;  and  the  whole  question 
was  warmly  revived  and  disputed  not  long  before  the  revolution. 
The  '  exuberant  branches  of  Democracy'  in  the  Massachusetts  con- 
stitution, referred  to  by  S.  Adams,  are  but  a  sample  of  the  bent  of 
many  of  the  colonial  statesmen :  while  as  to  smuggling,  it  was  a 
natural  offspring  of  the  restrictive  laws  which  bound  our  commerce. 
The  'cask  of  contraband  molasses'  in  the  text  is  no  far-fetched 
allusion.  The  enforcement  of  the  Molasses  Act  (6  Geo.  II.  c.  13.) 
caused  a  greater  alarm  in  New  England  than  the  capture  of  Fort 
William  Henry  in  1757.  "I  know  not,"  says  Adams,  "why  we 
should  blush  to  confess  that  molasses  was  an  essential  ingredient 
in  American  independence."  (x.  345.)  In  short,  the  amount  of 
goods  yearly  smuggled  into  America  was  estimated,  in  1775,  as 
fully  equal  to  those  that  passed  the  customs.  Great  fortunes  were 
thus  made ;  among  them,  it  is  said,  that  which  fell  to  Hancock, 
whose  uncle  is  reported  to  have  run  quantities  of  tea,  in  rum-casks. 
Mr.  Sabine  thinks  that  the  end  of  the  tea-tax  was  to  break  up  the 


194 


NOTES. 


contraband  trade  in  that  article,  and  that  we  so  understood  it  here. 
We  then  consumed  nearly  £300,000  of  tea  yearly,  most  of  which 
was  smuggled.  If  these  things  be  true,  it  is  not  strange  that  one- 
fourth  of  the  Signers  of  the  Declaration  were  merchants.  (R.  H. 
Lee;  i.  100;  15.5.  Sabine's  Am.  Loyalists:  47;  60.)  The  phraso 
"  felt  bold"  may  be  placed  by  the  side  of  the  parliamentary  "  are 
free  to  confess,"  remarked  by  Boucher  (Am.  Rev.  43.)  as  an  Ame- 
rican idiom. 


pi    1 

1; 


81.  This  excellent  piece,  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Myles  Cooper,  seems  to 
have  first  appeared  inUhe  Penn.  Ledger,  Jan.  31, 1778.  See  also 
Curwen's  Journal,  p.  579.  Dr.  C.  was  president  of  King's  (now 
Columbia)  College,  New  York,  whence  he  fled  before  a  whig  mob, 
in  1775.  Escaping  to  England,  he  died  at  Edinburgh,  1785.  His 
own  epitaph  says : 

Hero  lies  a  priest  of  English  blood, 
Who,  living,  liked  whato'er  was  good  ; 
Good  company,  good  wine,  good  uamo, 
Yet  never  hunted  after  fame. 

He  had  charge  of  the  education  of  Washington's  stepson.  The 
'  heaven-directed  youth'  of  the  Stanzas,  was  Mr.  Nicholas  Ogden ; 
the  '  peaceful  cell'  was  King's  College ;  Palemon's  cot'  was  Mr.  Stuy- 
vesant's  seat  in  the  Bowery;  and  the  vessel  was  the  Kingfisher 
sloop-of-war,  Capt.  James  Montague,  bound  for  England. 


82.  Capt.  Smyth  was  arrested,  according  to  his  own  account,  in 
company  with  the  well-known  John  Conolly,  while  on  his  way  to 
excite  a  loyalist  rising  on  the  Ohio,  and  brought  to  Philadelphia  : 


NOTES. 


195 


where  by  orders  of  the  Continental  Congress  and  the  Provincial 
Committee  of  Safety,  he  was  confined  in  a  cell  nnder  double  doors 
of  iron  and  wood.  "  No  person  even  in  the  prison  was  allowed  to 
"  speak  to  me,  nor  to  answer  me  if  I  called  to  them  ;  restricted  from 
"  pen,  ink  and  paper,  or  the  smallest  communication  with  any  crea- 
"  ture  living ;  without  a  chair,  table,  bed,  blanket,  or  straw,  and  ob- 
"  liged  to  lie  on  the  bare  floor,  with  a  log  of  wood  under  my  head  ; 
"  in  the  midst  of  a  most  severe  winter,  without  a  spark  of  fire,  and 
"  the  icicles  impending  from  the  arched  roof  of  this  horrid  vault ; 
"  and  sometimes  suffered  to  remain  for  three  days  together,  without 
"  a  drop  of  water,  or  any  kind  of  drink."  The  text  is  taken  from 
his  "  Tour  in  the  States"  f  Lond.  1784)  ii.  285,  and  collated  with 
a  copy  in  the  Pennsylvania  Ledger  of  24  Dec.  1777,  (Philadel- 
phia then  being  occupied  by  the  British,)  where  it  is  thus  pre- 
faced :  "  The  following  lines  were  wrote  with  charcoal,  on  the  walls 
of  the  new  gaol  in  this  city,  by  an  officer,  prisoner,  and  one  of  the 
first  in  it.  They  are  yet  to  be  seen  in  the  farthest  room  in  the  west 
wing,  where  both  Major-General  Prescott  and  he  were  then  most 
rigidly  and  cruelly  confined.  A  Loyalist  in  the  city,  by  some 
means,  procured  a  copy  of  them ;  but,  as  it  was  dangerous  for  any 
one  to  have  them  found  in  his  possession  during  that  reign  of  ty- 
ranny, they  were  seen  only  by  a  few.  Now  the  happy  time  has  ar- 
rived when  such  pee  publications  may  be  found  even  in  the  Phila- 
delphia papers." 


■',' 


83.  Qates  estimated  his  loss  at  740  killed  and  missing.  This  in- 
oladei  neither  the  continental  wounded,  nor  any  of  the  militia, 
who  fled  with  such  precipitation  that  no  returns  whatever  were  ob- 


'  r , 


196 


NOTES. 


tained.  Gates  himself  thought  the  defeat  ro  thorongh,  that  be 
hardly  paused  till  he  reached  Hillsborough,  N.  C.  In  fact,  the  rout 
was  complete.  "  At  the  distance  of  forty  miles,  whole  teams  of 
Iiorses  were  cut  out  of  the  waggons  to  accelerate  the  flight."  Save 
those  of  Gates  himself,  and  De  Kalb  (who  was  mortally  hurt,) 
scarce  a  baggage  waggon  escaped.  (Gordon,  iii.  442.) 

84.  In  1778,  to  the  mortification  of  many  in  their  own  interest, 
the  Americans  enlisted  great  numbers  of  Burgoyne's  convention 
troops  in  Massachusetts.  Most  of  these  recruits,  however,  are  said 
to  have  taken  this  step,  merely  to  escape  ill-treatment ;  and  very 
soon  found  their  way  back  to  their  ancient  colours.  (Lamb's  Hist. 
Am.  War.  Gordon,  iii.  73.) 


85.  Of  the  officers  named  in  the  Tenth  Regiment's  Song,  Capt. 
Richard  Bassett ;  Capt-Lieut.  Meyrick  Shawe  and  George  Thwaits ; 
Capt.  Edw.  Fitzgerald  of  the  grenadier  and  Lieut.  Waldron  Kelly 
of  the  light-infantry  companies ;  Arthur  Edwards,  surgeon ;  and 
James  Montgomery,  chaplain  ;  were  serving  in  America  with  their 
corps  in  1778.  Capt.  Parsons  was  with  the  10th  at  Lexington  and 
Concord ;  and  he,  Fitzgerald,  Kelly,  and  Vemer,  were  all  wounded 
at  Bunker's  Hill ;  the  latter,  mortally. 

• 

86.  Peregrine  Lascelles  was  colonel  of  the  47th  in  1769 :  its  uni- 
form had  white  facings  and  white  lace,  with  one  red  and  two  black 
stripes.  In  the  previous  year  its  clothing  had  been  taken  by  a 
French  privateer,  and  was  replaced  by  that  of  Shirley's,  which  had 
perhaps  red  facings,  with  white  linings  and  white  lace.  (See  Br«d- 


NOT£S. 


197 


dock's  Exp.  290.)  That  "Hot  Stuff"  takes  its  name  from  some 
tavern  reminiacence,  is  very  evident.  The  allusion  to  the  grena- 
diers may  be  explained  by  supposing,  in  the  words  of  the  author  of 
Rob  Roy,  "that  in  those  days  this  description  of  soldiers  actually 
carried  that  destructive  species  of  ilre-work  from  which  they  derive 
their  name." 

87.  There  is  a  life  of  Bailey,  published  with  a  preface  by  Bishop 
Burgess  in  1853,  that  shows  him  to  have  had  good  cause  of  com- 
plaint against  his  whig  neighbours.  The  following  extract  from  the 
Diary  of  J.  Adams  gives  an  idea  of  what  sorry  metnl  some  of  the 
New  England  whigs  were  made  of  in  1775 :  "Ac  event  of  the  most 
trifling  nature  in  appearance,  and  fit  only  to  excite  laughter  in  other 
times,  struck  me  into  a  profound  reverie,  if  not  a  fit  of  melancholy. 
I  met  a  man  who  had  sometimes  been  my  client,  and  sometimes  I 
had  been  against  him.  lie,  though  a  common  horse-jockey,  was 
sometimes  in  the  right,  and  I  had  commonly  been  successful  in  his 
favor  in  our  courts  of  law.  He  was  always  in  the  law,  and  had 
been  sued  in  many  actions  at  almost  every  court.  As  soon  as  he 
saw  me,  he  came  up  to  me,  and  his  first  salutation  to  me  was,  "  Oh ! 
Mr.  Adams,  what  great  things  have  you  and  your  colleagues  done 
for  us  !  We  can  never  be  grateful  enough  to  you.  Tliere  are  no 
courts  of  justice  now  in  this  Province,  and  I  hope  there  will  never 
be  another."  Is  this  the  object  for  which  I  have  been  contending  ? 
said  I  to  myself,  for  I  rode  along  without  any  answer  to  this 
wretch.  Are  these  the  sentiments  of  such  people,  and  how  many 
of  them  are  there  in  the  country  ?  Half  the  nation,  for  what  I 
know  ;  for  half  the  nation  are  debtors,  if  no  more,  and  these  liave 


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198 


NOTES. 


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been,  in  all  countried,  the  sontiments  of  debtors.  If  the  power  of 
the  country  should  get  into  such  handa,  and  there  is  great  danger 
that  it  will,  to  what  purpose  have  we  saoriflced  our  time,  health, 
and  everything  elae.  Surely  we  must  guard  against  this  spirit  and 
these  principles,  or  we  shall  repent  of  all  our  conduct." 

88.  The  Duke  signifloa  the  Orand  Duke  transport,  an  East  India- 
man,  which  under  convoy  of  Admiral  Arbuthnot,  had  arrived  at 
New  York  from  Torbay,  Aug.  26,  1779,  with  a  detachment  of  the 
Household  Troops.  She  was  one  of  that  great  fleet  of  over  300  sail, 
which  at  this  time  brought  reinforcements  to  America.  '  Old  Knyp 
and  Old  Clip.'  are  Oen.  Knyphausen  and  Gen.  Robertson :  'Yankee 
Farms,'  are  Connecticut  Farms,  a  small  settlement  about  four  miles 
from  Elizabethtown,  in  New  Jersey  ;  and  Springfield,  a  small  village, 
seven  miles  from  Elizabethtown. 

89.  The  author  of  Waterbury's  Farewell,  &c.,  thus  annotates  the 
text  in  Rivington.  Stanza  3rd :  Canfleld  was  "the  name  of  the  per- 
son to  whom  he  waS'  forc'd  to  resign  his  commission  ;"  the  London 
Trade  was  the  name  given  to  the  smuggling  carried  on  with  New 
York.  Stanza  4th  :  "  The  post  fortified  by  Waterbury  is  generally 
called  Fort  Nonsense."  Stanza  5th :  "  The  excursion  of  the  Refu- 
gees to  Connecticut."  Stanza  7th  :  "  He  is  selling  his  house  and 
property,  in  order  to  remove  to  the  interior  parts  of  the  country." 

90.  The  people  of  North  Carolina  were  very  evenly  divided  dur- 
ing the  war  ;  and  they  fought  among  themselves,  particularly  the 
Scots,  with  singular  fierceness.     Thomas  Burke,  the  whig  governor, 


_^jffli>  *, 


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NOTES. 


199 


being  very  odious  to  the  tory  population,  a  plot  was  formed  in  the 
■ummer  of  1781  to  capture  him  and  his  council,  and  to  deliver 
them  to  the  British  uommander  at  Wilmington.  At  the  head  of 
this  scheme  was  Col.  David  Fanning,  the  most  dangerous  and 
dreaded  loyalist  in  the  whole  country.  On  Sept.  13th,  he  fell  upon 
Uillsboro',  and  seizing  on  the  governor  and  every  other  leading 
whig  he  could  lay  hands  upon,  bore  them  away  in  triumph.  Tlio 
alarm  was  soon  spread,  however,  for  HilUboro'  stood  in  one  of  the 
strongest  whig  districts ;  and  on  the  14th,  an  ambuscade  was 
formed  for  the  retreating  tories.  But  so  furious  was  the  resistance 
of  the  latter,  and  so  indomitable  the  courage  of  the  Scottish  High- 
landers, who  constituted  the  bulk  of  their  force,  that  the  whigs 
were  glad  to  make  it  a  drawn  battle,  and  sufler  them  to  proceed  on 
their  way  with  their  captives. 


REV.  JONATHAN  ODELL. 

[Except  where  other  authorities  are  cited,  this  memoir  is  given 
in  almost  the  very  words  of  one  of  his  family,  who  had  a  personal 
acquaintance  with  Dr.  Odell.  Its  insertion  in  an  earlier  page  of 
this  volume  was  prevented  by  an  accident.  ] 

The  Honourable  and  Reverend  Jonathan  Odell,  M.  A.  of  Nassau 
Hall,  New  Jersey,  was  born  at  Newark,  on  the  25tli  of  September, 
1737.  He  was  educated  for  the  medical  profes«ion ;  and  in  the 
earlier  part  of  his  life  served  as  surgeon  in  the  British  Army.  He 
left  the  army  while  stationed  iu  the  West  Indies ;  went  to  Eng- 
12 


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NOTES. 


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land  L  aud  prepared  himself  for  lioly  orders.  He  was  ordained  as 
Deacon,  Dec.  2l8t,  176C,  in  the  Chapel  Royal  at  St.  James's  Palace, 
Westminster,  by  Doctor  Richard  Terriok,  Bishop  of  London.  In 
January,  1767,  he  took  Priest's  orders,  and  immediately  after  re- 
ceived from  the  Bishop  of  London  his  licence  as  minister  in  the 
then  Province  of  New  Jersey,  where  he  was  appointed  rector  of 
Burlington,  and  where  Provost  Smith  (i.  Works)  says  he  was  the 
missionary  of  the  Society  for  propagating  the  Gospel  in  Foreign 
Parts.  Here  he  seems  also  to  have  resumed  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine ;  the  Diary  of  James  Crafts,  of  Burlington,  under  date  of  Aug. 
25,  1771,  presenting  this  entry :  "  Episcopal  Parson  Odell  com- 
menced Dr.  of  Physick."  (Am.  Hist.  Mag.,  i.  300.)  John  Adams 
in  his  diary  (Aug.  17,  1774)  mentions  meeting  a  Mr.  Odell  at  a 
dinner  at  Mr.  Douglass's,  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  where  they  "  were 
very  genteelly  entertained,  and  spent  the  whole  afternoon  in  poli- 
tics, the  depth  of  politics."  There  was  an  Episcopal  church  at 
New  Haven  ;  so  the  Mr.  Odell  may  possibly  have  been  the  subject 
of  this  memoir :  but  more  probably  Adams  refers  to  some  one  of 
the  Odell  or  WoodhuU  family,  settled  in  Westchester  Co.,N.  Y.,  as 
early  as  1663 ;  and  which  was  generally  whig  during  the  war. 
(Bolton's  Westchester  Co.,  i.  243 :  ii.  47  ;  372  ;  489.)  In  the  com- 
mencement of  the  disturbances  which  led  to  the  independence  of 
the  United  States,  the  Rev.  Mr.  Odell  openly  espoused  the  cause  of 
the  crown ;  in  consequence  of  which  he  was  persecuted,  proscribed, 
and  driven  from  his  family  and  home,  without  any  means  of  sub- 
sistence. In  Oct.,  1775,  he  had  got  into  trouble  at  Philadelphia. 
A  man  named  Christopher  Carter  had  been  arrested  on  his  depar- 
ture for  England,  and  his  papers  seized  by  the  local  Committee  of 


NOTES. 


201 


Inspection  and  Observation.  Among  them  were  two  letters  from 
Odell.  One  was  anonTmous,  and  addressed  to  the  Rev.  Dr.  Thomas 
B.  Chandler,  London.  The  other,  which  was  signed  Jno.  Odell, 
was  directed  to  Mrs.  Bullock,  Brixton  Causeway,  Surry,  near  West- 
minster. The  committee  having  taken  the  doctor's  parole  not  to 
leave  the  city,  referred  the  matter  to  the  Council  of  Safety,  before 
whom  he  appeared,  Oct.  8th.  The  Council  resolved  to  send  the 
letters  to  the  Committee  of  Safety  of  New  Jersey ;  and  on  their 
prisoner  giving  his  word  of  honor  to  appear  when  required,  he  was 
discharged.  (Pa.  Col.  Recs.  x.  358  ;  361.)  What  action  the  Jersey 
committee  took  in  the  premises,  may  be  gathered  from  the  pro- 
ceedings of  the  Convention  of  that  State : 

July  20,  1776.  Ordered,  Tliat  Peter  Tallman,  Esq.,  Chairman  of  the  County 
Committeo  of  Burlington,  be  directed  to  take  the  parole  of  the  Kev.  Jonathan 
Odell,  a  person  suspected  of  boiug  inimical  to  American  liberty ;  that  he  confine 
himself  on  the  east  side  of  Delaware  River,  within  a  circle  of  eight  miles  from 
the  Court-House  In  the  City  of  Burlington. 

Thursday,  August  1,  1776.  A  Letter  from  the  Kev.  Mr.  Odell,  praying,  for 
certain  reasons,  that  he  may  be  excused  from  signing  the  parole  heretofore 
ordered,  and  offering  a  new  parole,  binding  himself  not  to  hold  any  political  cor- 
respondence with  the  enemy,  or  to  furnish  them  with  provisions  or  intelligence, 
read.  Whereupon  the  Convention  having  taken  the  same  into  consideration. 
Ordered,  That  Mr.  Odell  sign  the  original  parole  sent  to  the  Committee  of  Burling- 
ton.    (Force's  Am.  Arch.  4th  Series  ;  vl.  1631 ;  1656.) 

Dr.  Odell  seems  to  have  remained  at  Burlington  till  at  least 
the  close  of  this  year ;  since  on  Dec.  14,  177'i,  we  find  him  routed 
out  from  his  abode  in  that  town  by  the  report  that  a  party  of 
whigs  were  in  pursuit  of  him :  but  he  probably  soon  after  found 
the  protection  of  the  royal  arms.    (The  Hill  Family;  Phila.     Pri- 


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speedily  procured  the  notice  of  persons  in  command  at  the  seat  of 
war ;  and  during  its  continuance,  he  executed  many  important  and 
confidential  trusts.  He  was  the  chaplain  of  a  Loyalist  corps,  says 
Mr.  Sabine.  "  Odell  was  active  in  every  way.  He  appears  to  have 
been  the  medium  of  communication  between  Gustavus  (Arnold) 
and  John  Anderson  (Andr6),  in  1780."  (Reed's  Reed;  ii.  170.) 
Mr.  Sparks  says  Arnold's  letters  were  sent  to  Odell's  care.  (vii. 
Wash.) 

At  the  close  of  the  war,  Mr.  Odell  accompanied  Sir  Guy  Carleton 
to  England,  where  his  suflFerings  were  remembered  and  his  services 
appreciated.  He  was  called  to  a  seat  in  His  Majesty's  Council  in 
the  Province  of  New  Brunswick ;  where,  after  a  long  separation,  he 
rejoined  his  family.  He  also  received,  at  the  same  time,  the  ap- 
pointments of  Secretary,  Register  of  the  Records,  and  Clerk  of  the 
Council :  the  duties  of  which  oflSces  he  faithfully  discharged  for 
upwards  of  thirty  years.  At  an  advanced  age,  he  relinquished  his 
appointments  and  retired  from  public  life.  He  died  at  Fredericton, 
N.  B.,  Nov.  25th,  1818.  "  His  daughter,  Lucy  Ann,  wife  of  Lt.  Col. 
[Henry]  Rudyerd,  of  the  Royal  Engineers,  died  at  Halifax  in  1829. 
His  widow,  Anne,  died  at  Fredericton  in  1825,  aged  eighty-five ; 
and  his  son,  the  Honorable  William  Odell,  who  was  his  successor 
as  Secretary,  and  held  the  office  for  thirty-two  years,  died  at  Fred- 
ericton in  1844,  at  the  age  of  seventy."  (Sabine's  Loyalists :  p. 
485.)  Mrs.  Charles  Lee,  of  Fredericton,  is  now  the  only  surviving 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  Jonathan  Odell. 

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those  of  Churchill  and  Canning.  The  personalities  in  which  he 
abounds,  it  must  be  remembered,  are  not  only  an  excusable  but  a 
legitimate  feature  in  this  species  of  composition:  and  however 
harsh  these  may  appear  to  us,  who  have  always  been  accustomed 
to  regard  with  reverent  affection  the  names  most  hateful  to  his 
muse,  a  very  cursory  examination  will  suffice  to  show  that  they 
are  not  at  all  more  direct  or  abundant  than  those  of  Pope,  Hanbury 
Williams,  or  Canning.  Even  in  our  own  days,  the  political  poems 
attributed  to  Scott,  Moore,  Hook,  Palmerston,  Peel,  and  Blackwood's 
Ambrosian  squadron,  on  the  other  side  of  the  Atlantic,  or  to  Lowell 
and  Whittier  upon  this,  are  scarcely  less  amenable  to  criticism  on 
the  score  of  invective  against  individuals  than  those  of  Odell. 


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AbercromMe,  Rev.  Dr.  38. 
Adams,  Major:  37. 

C.  F.  162. 

John :  7  ;  9  ;   28 ;   159 ;  167  ;  168 ; 

169;  173;  175;  179;  184;  189;  191; 

193;  197;  200. 
Samuel:  7;  9;  28;  57;  109;  158; 

174;  176:  177;  193. 
Addison,  Joseph :  158. 
Adolphus:  154. 
Alabama:  183. 
Albany  County,  5.  Y.  185. 
Alexander  the  coppersmith :  117. 
—  Gen.  WilUam,  Earl  of  Stirling :  14 ; 

165. 
Alison,  Ber.  Francis :  169. 
Alphonso  :  66. 
Altangi,  Lien  Chi :  174. 
American  Episcopacy :  167  ;  168  ;  193. 
American  Magazine :  170. 
American  Philosophical  Society  :  154. 
American  Times :  1  ;  157. 
Anderson,  John  ;  202. 
Andr£,  Major  John:  202. 
Anthony,  St.  41. 
Arbutbnot,  Admiral :  198. 
ArmstroDg,  John :  161. 


Army,  American  :   10 ;  31 ;  163 ;   nn- 

cleanliness  of,  161. 

English:  167;  199. 

—  French ;  163. 

Arnold,  Oen.  B.  202. 

Ashe,  Brigadier :  19 ;  170. 

Ashley  river:  192. 

Asia  man-of-war:  61;  193. 

Assembly,  General:  167. 

Atlee,  William  Augustus:  152;  191. 

B. 

Bacchus:  81. 

Bailey,  Rev.  Jacob  :  129  ;  197. 
Baltimore :  155 
Barb^-Marbols :  158. 
Barebonos,  Praise-God :  172. 
Barnard,  Sir  John:  52;  191. 

Barron, :  62  ;  193. 

Bartram,  John :  184. 
Bassett's  Light  Horse  :  184. 

Capt.  Eichard :  122 ;  196. 

Battle  of  Cane  Creek :  145. 
Bayle:  151. 

Baylor,  George :  43 ;  80 ;  184. 
BeaumarchaiH,  Caron  de :  162. 
Beaumont,  Francis :  1S9. 
Belial:  154. 


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Beekman,  family  of:  18S. 
Birthday,  the  King's :  122. 

the  Prince  of  Wales's  :  140. 

Blackey, :  122. 

Blackwood's  Magazine :  203. 
Bland,  Theodoriok :  153. 
BoUon,  E.  200. 
Borre,  Gen.  de  :  162. 
Boston  :  7  ;  9  ;  88  ;  121 ;  164  ;  175. 
Boswell,  James:  181. 
Botwood,  Sorgeant  Edward ;  128. 
Boucher,  Her.  Jonathan :  194. 
Braddock,  Gen.  Edward :  196. 
Brandywiue:  162;  1S9. 
Bray,  American  Vicar  of:  94. 
Breton,  Cape :  126. 
Briar  creek:  171.      ■ 
Brixton  Causeway :  201. 
Brother  Jonathan :  119. 
Brown,  Lieut.  Richard:  186. 
Bull,  Alderman :  62  ;  191.   ' 

Lieut.  Gov.  68  ;  192. 

Bullock,  Mrs.  201. 

Bunker's  Hill :  196. 

Burgess,  Bishop :  197. 

Burgoyne,  Sir  John  :  26 ;  97 ;  109  ;  191 ; 

196 
Burlington,  N.  J.  180 ;  200  ;  201. 
Burke,  Edmund :  189. 

Thomas  :  148  ;  198. 

Byron,  Admiral :  100. 


Cacus:  48. 

Cade,  Jack :  73. 

Cadwalader,  Gen.  John  :  176. 

CiEsar :  81. 

Caldwell,  Rer.  James:  42;  180. 

Calvinist  Church :  168. 

Cambridge:  164. 

Camden:  119. 

Campbell,  Major  James:  91. 


Campbell,  Lieut.  Col.  Mungo  ;  108. 

Canada:  50;  190. 

Cane  creek,  battle  of:  145. 

Canfleld, :  143  :  198. 

Canning,  George  ;  203. 
Canterbury,  Archbishop  of:  169. 

Tales:  109. 

Cape-Breton  :  126. 

Carey's  American  Museum  :  134. 

Carleton,  Sir  Guy  ;  73  ;  202. 

Carlisle,  Abraham  :  11 ;  1.^2 ;  164 ;  1S.1. 

Carmichacl,  Alex  ;  41 ;  180. 

Carnarvon  :  131. 

Carolina:  hi;  119;  184;  192. 

Carroll,  Charles :  190. 

Dr.  John :  190. 

Carter,  Mr.  160. 

Christopher:  200. 

Caruthers,  Rev.  E.  W.  145. 
Catawbas:  98. 
Catch,  Jack  :  128. 
Catiline:  73. 
Cauldron,  magic :  8. 
Chalmers,  George:  178. 
Chambers,  Robt.  167. 
Chambersburg:  174. 
Chandler,  Rev.  Samuel :  27 :  174. 

Rev.  Thomas  B.  201. 

Charles  Edward :  166. 
Charleston;  58;  108;  186;  192. 
Chase,  Samuel :  5  ;  188  ;  168  ;  100. 

Rev.  Thos.  155. 

Chastellux,  M.  de:  165;  171. 

Chaucer:  109. 

Cheetham,  .T.  175  ;  187 ;  191 ;  192. 

Chelms-ford  assize :  153. 

Chew,  Benj.  43;  182;  184. 

Chew,  Lieut.  184. 

Chickasaws:  98. 

Choclaws:  98. 

Christ-church:  183. 

Chronicle,  London  Morning:  185. 

Chubb,  H.  103. 


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207 


Chtirch  of  Scotland  :  17  ;  of  England 

167. 
ChurcliiU,  Charles;  20;l. 
Cincinnati,  order  of:  170. 
Civil  Usage  privateer ;  159. 
Clarke,  Oen.  G.  R.  178. 
Clingan,  Wm.  166. 
Clinton,  Sir  Henry:  12  ;  73  ;  100 ;  104  ; 

109  ;  132 ;  131 ;  13.5. 
Cljrraer,  George :  160. 
Cobbett,  W.  75;   1,55;  162;  171;  188; 

191. 
Colleges:  Columbia,  19-1 ;  Harvard,  169; 

King's,  169,  194  ;    New  Jersey,  167, 

169  ;   Philadelphia,  168,  169 ;   Yale, 

169. 
Colman,  G.  172. 

Committee  of  Safety:  195  ;  201. 
Common  Sense :  52 ;  154  ;  191. 
Concord :  196. 
Confederation:  177. 
Congress :  70 ;  1.52 ;  1.54 ;  168  ;  176 ;  177 

181 ;  182;  186  ;  187 ;  188  ;  189 ;  195 

duplicity  of,  49  ;  79 ;  190 :  king,  43 

98 ;  100  ;  102 ;  103 :  prayer  for,  117 

votes  of,  2 :  Word  of,  38. 
Connecticut :  142  ;  153  ;  101 ;  198 ;  200. 

Farms:  198. 

Conolly,  Dr.  John :  194. 
Constitution  of  I'enna :  29  ;  174  ;  176. 
Conway,  Gen.  154. 
Cooper,  Dr.  Myles :  8G ;  194. 

Rev.  Samuel :  7  ;  9  ;  158. 

Cork-haven :  121 ;  1,34. 
Coniwallis,  Lord:  119, 
Couvray,  Louvet  de :  165. 
Cowchaae,  the :  151. 
Coxe,  Daniel :  27  ;  174. 

Col.  John:  186. 

Crafts,  James :  200. 
Crampton:  122. 
Crazy  Tales :  134. 
Cromwell :  73  ;  107. 


Cumberland  co.  N.  C.  14,5. 

Penn.172;  176. 

Curwen,  Samuel :  194. 

D. 

Dawklns,  Capt.  153. 

Deane,  Silas :  29 ;  162 ;  178. 

Do  Borro,  Gen.  162. 

Dojean,  Philip:  178. 

De  Kalb,  Baron :  196. 

Delaware :  184  ;  201. 

Democrack,  Will.  65. 

Democracy :  22 ;  173 ;  193. 

Detroit ;  178 ;  183. 

Dickinson,  John:  26;  172;  174;  181. 

Douglass,  Mr.  200. 

Doune  Castle :  168. 

Drayton  Hall :  192. 

Drayton,  W.  H.  26  ;  68  ;  60 ;  174  ;  192. 

Duane,  James  :  7  ;  157  ;  159  ;  169. 

Ducoudray,  Gen.  162. 

Dner,  W.  7  ;  1,57. 

W.  A.  165. 

Duffleld,  Kev.  0.  40 ;  167 ;  179. 

Dr.  S.  166. 

Dunciad  :  151. 
Dungarvou:  121. 
Dunmore,  Lord  :  74. 
Duykinck,  E.  A.  187. 


E. 
Edinburgh:  194, 
Edwards,  Arthur:  122;  198. 
Egypt,  lice  of:  10. 
Elbert,  Gen.  19  ;  170. 
Ellzabethtown :  198. 
Elliott,  Col.  B.  170. 
Epigrams :  37  ;  55 ;  67 ;  69 ;  76  ;  79 ;  81  ; 

85 ;  127  ;  147. 
Episcopacy,  American:  167;  168;  193. 
Epitaph :  144. 
Ewing,  Gen.  James:  31 ;  176. 


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INDEX. 


Falstaff's  soldiers:  10. 

Fanning,  Col.  David :  14S  ;  180. 

Farmer's  Letters:  174. 

Faublas,  Chevalier  de :  165. 

Ferguson,  Capt.  Patrick  :  165. 

Fitzgerald,  Edw.  122 ;  196. 

Flanders,  Henry:  155. 

Fletcher,  John :  189. 

Fort    Charlotte :    183 ;     Montgomery : 

105.    Nonsense:  143;  198.    William 

Henry;  193. 
Fox,  C.  J.  156. 

France:  47:  54;  109;  157;  175. 
Franklin,  Dr.  28;   50;  52;    169;   170; 

175  ;  176 ;  179  ;  190 ;  191. 
Fredericton:  202. 
French  Alliance:  32;  96;  113:  Army, 

162:  Fleet,  47:    Oenerals,  10;  162: 

Revolution,  179. 
Freneau,  Philip:  187.  * 

Frothingbam,  B.  162. 


Oage,  Oen.  Thos.  57. 

Oaine,  Hugh :  62. 

Galloway,  Jos.  134  ;  156  ;  157;  184. 

Gates,  Gen.  H.  10  ;  43 ;   44  ;  S5 ;  110 ; 

157  ;  160 ;  187  ;  195. 
—  Robert:  160. 
Genet,  M.  179. 
Gentry,  Sir  Ruinous:  189. 
GeorgeII:193.     Ill:  70;  90;  94;  100; 

101 ;  122;  162;  182;  190.     IV:  141. 
Georgia:  170. 
Gdrard,  M.  33 ;  177. 
Germans :  165. 
Gilpin,  Thos.  187. 
Gloucester,  dean  of,  79. 
Ooddard,  W.  172. 
Goldsmith,  Oliver:  174. 
Gooch,  Lt.  Gov.  34  ;  177. 
Gordon,  Rev.  W.  161. 


Granary  graveyard  ;  175. 

Grunby,  Marquis  of;  101. 

Grand-Duke  transport;  135;  108. 

Gray,  Mrs.  181 :  the  ferry  ;  183. 

Graydon,  Alex.  152. 

Greene,  Oen.  N.  28  ;  43  ;  160  ;  186  ;  IW. 

Grenadier's  march:  125. 

Grey,  Gen.  Charles:  185.    Earl;  185. 

Grigsby,  H.  B.  177. 

Grub  Street:  52;  157. 

Gustavus:  202. 

H. 

Hale,  Com.  121 ;  123. 

Haley,  Mr.  122. 

Halifax:  129;  102. 

Hamilton,  Andrew:  183.    Got.  James: 

43 ;  178.    Gov.  Henry ;  34 ;  178  ;  183. 

William:  183. 
Hamiltoniad:  156. 
Hancock,  John ;  1 ;  7  ;  9  ;  28 ;  57  ;  130 ; 

158  ;  175  ;  193. 

Thomas:  193. 

Hartley,  Col.  Thos.  26 ;  174. 
Heath,  Gen.  W.  43  ;  186. 
Henley,  Capt.  186. 
Henry,  J.  J.  191. 

Patrick :  13 ;  155 ;  164 ;  178. 

Hermes:  81. 
Hill  family:  201. 
Hillsboro :  145  ;  196  ;  199. 
Holt,  John:  66;  147. 
Home,  John:  166. 
Hook,  T.  E.  82 ;  203. 
Hopkins,  Gov.  177. 
Housegger,  Col.  N.  163. 
Houstoun,  Gov.  John:  13;  164. 

Sir  Patrick :  164. 

Howe,  Earl :  62 ;  68 ;  100 ;  10i>.. 

Sir  W.  62;   68;  73;  74;  81;  97; 

109  ;  182  ;  183. 
Hudson,  the:  89  ;  105  ;  160. 
Hutchinson,  Dr.  179, 


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I. 

Indopendence :   31;  SO;  ftfl;  lOD;  183; 

ICfl;  168;  178;  177;  182;  183;  191; 

194. 
InglU,  Bishop  CliarleB:  24;  173:  Bishop 

John  ;  174. 
Irish:  132. 
IrTlne,  Oon.  W.  V)2. 
Irring,  Washington:  166;  187. 
Isaac:  119. 
Icrael:  120. 


Jamaica-  (L.  I.)  132. 
Jay,  John :  4  ;  1.^4 ;  17.'5. 
Jeffreys,  Jadgo:  31. 
Jefferson,  T.  13;  31;  161;  175. 
Jenyns,  Soame:  77. 
Jonas:  123;  134;  179. 
Jonathan,  Brother:  119. 
Johnson,  Dr.  Sam.  172  ;  181. 
Johnston,  Col.  F.  192. 
Jotham :  7  ;  158. 
JoTe  :  70  ;  181. 


Kalb,  baron  de :  196. 
Kelly,  Waldron:  122;  196. 
Kompe,  John  Tabor:  61. 
Kerr,  Rev.  Mr.  41. 
Kingfisher  man-of-war :  194. 
Klnnersley,  Rev.  E.  170. 
Knox,  Gen.  H.  43  ;  18.1 
Knyphausen,  Gen.  134 ;  198. 

L. 

Laco:  160. 

Lafayette,  M.  de :  163. 

Lamb,  R.  165;  196. 

Lamothe,  W.  178. 

Lancaster:  191. 

Langdun:  157. 

LasceUo«,  Qon.  Peregi-lne  :  123  ;  196. 


Laval,  M.  do :  163.  -  ■ 

I.aurens,  H.  1 ;  21  ;  29  ;  172. 

Lauznn,  Due  de  :  154 ;  163. 

Lee,  Arthur:  28  ;  175  ;  181. 

Charles :  3 ;  54 ;  74 ;  85 ;  127  ;  133 ; 

181  ;  188. 

Mrs.  Charles;  202. 

Harry:  161  ;  165;  171  ;  185. 

R.  H.  l.M;  154;  177. 

Leigh,  Sir  Egorton :  172. 

LeoX:  161. 

Lexington:  196. 

Lincoln,  Gen.  B.  19  ;  108 ;  170. 

Lisle,  Marquis  de :  154. 

Little  Egg  Harbor :  166. 

Livingston,  W.  4  ;  154  ;  169. 

Logan,  Mrs.  D.  178. 

London;  52;  137;  191.    Bishop  of:  152; 

200:    Evening  Post:    127;    Gazette; 

170:  Morning  Chroniclo:  185  ;  Trade: 

143;  198. 
LongMand:  1.32;  132. 
Loring,  James  S.  173, 
Louis  XVI.  33. 
Louisiana :  182. 
Lonvet  de  Couvray  :  163. 
Lowell,  J.  R.  203. 
Lubin:  127. 
Lucifer:  118. 
Lycurgns:  59. 

M. 

Hachiavel:  75. 

Mackenzie,  H.  167. 

Macneill,  Col.  Hector :  143.   Capt.  Nelll : 

145. 
McCall,  H.  171. 
McDougall,  Gen.  A.  43  ,  185. 
McDowall,  Alex.  153. 
McKean,  Thos.  11 ;  19 ;  164;  171 
McWhorter,  Rev.  Mr.  61 ;  191. 
Madeira  wine :  184. 
Market-street:  192. 


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M«rK)iiiII,  ChriHtoplinr:  168. 
Maryland  loyullxt:  U!). 
MttHN,  the:  flO  ;  ino. 
MaKHacliascttn:   .17;  177;  189;  1U8. 
Mutlack,  Tiniotliy:  41. 
Maxwell,  Geu.  W.  «  ;  183. 
Mayor,  Brantz:  IftO. 
MeaKP,  John :  168. 
Morcor,  Oen.  H.  132. 
MuHchiaaza:  81. 
JIothoillHtH  :  117  ;  m. 
Mifflin,  Gou.  T.  44  ;  179  ;  184. 
Milton:  12. 
MlsRUKippi :  182. 
Mobile;  18.3. 

Hnnckton,  brigadier:  (126  carton.) 
Molasses  Act :  193. 
Monmouth:  188. 

tlontagu.  Lord  Charle.q  GreTllle  :  192. 
Montague,  Capt.  J.  194. 
Montoalm,  M.  de :  126.     ' 
Montgomery,   Rev.  James:   122;  124; 
196. 

Gen.  U.  72;  168. 

Montreal:  190. 

Moore,  Mr.  123. 

Moore,  Thos.  202. 

MorrlR,  Oouverneur:  6;  156, 

. Robert ;  S ;  130  ;  182. 

MorrlKtown:  180. 
Moultrie,  Gen.  W.  19  ;  170. 
Moylan,  Mr.  181. 
Muhlenberg,  Gen.  V.  43;  185 

N. 
RaxKau  Hall:  199. 
Newark:  199. 
New  Brunswick:  202. 
Newburg:  161. 
New  England:  76;  158;  173;  176;  185; 

197. 
New  Ilampshire :  176. 
New  Haven :  200. 


New  Jorsoy:  154;  187;  171;  180;  199. 

Now  Orleans:  183. 

Newport:  163;  180. 

Newton,  81r  Isaac:  75. 

New  York:  109;  121;  1.34;  183;  171; 

19:1  ;  198. 
Nichols,  .lohn:  193. 
Norrlton:  40. 
North  CaroUua:  191;  198. 
Notes:  149. 
Nothing:  .W. 
Nova  Scotia:  129;  173. 

O. 
Odeli,  Anno :  202.    Rev.  Jonathan  ;  1 ; 

.38;  1-il;  liV,';  1(17;  176;  187;  181);  IP!). 

Lnry  Anno:  202.*  Hon.  William:  202. 

fuinily:  202. 

Ogden,  Nlch. :  194. 
Ohio:  9;  194. 
Old  Clip.  198. 
Old  Knyp.  198. 
Omissions:  46;  12.';;  1S8. 
Uppositlou,  American:  193. 


Paine,  Thos.  2;  61;  187;  101. 

Paisley:  167. 

Palemon  :  89  ;  194. 

Palfrey,  Col.  W.  100. 

Palniprston,  Lord:  203. 

Paper  Money :  2 ;  28 ;  32 ;  37 ;  69  ;  71 ; 

137. 
Paramore,  J.  137. 
Parsons,  Capt.  122 ;  196. 
Paschall,  Mr.  43. 
Pasquin,  Antony:  156. 
Peel,  Sir  R.  203. 
Pendleton,  Edm.  153. 
Ppuu,  John  and  Richard:  43;  181. 
Pennsylvania:  166;  181;  186:  Consti- 

tutirtn  of;  29;  174;  176. 
Percy,  Charles:  182. 


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211 


Peters,  Kev.  K.  171 :  Hon.  R.  20;  171. 

Pettlt,  Chas.  180. 

Phlladelpliltt:  97;  109;  inO;  164;  166; 

168;  177;  178;  182;  190;  194;  200: 

ItH  Jail ;  108 ;  lOfl. 
PhlUpH,  Onn.  186:  Capt.  187. 
PblllpHo  family:  WH. 
PlifBiilx  man-of-war:  62. 
Polnt-Iievl;  124. 
Pollock,  O.  182. 
Pope,  A.  l.'il;  203. 
Porcupine,  Peter :  78;  81;  171. 
Port  Bin  :  .W. 
Ponghkeepsle:  43;  13fl. 
Presbyter,  John;  64. 
PreHbyterlauH,  loyalty  of  Soottlsh:  167. 
Prescott,  Oon.  195. 
Princeton:  180. 
Puff:  109. 
Pulaski,  Count:  14;  164;  165. 

Q. 
Quakers:  41;  112;  137;  156;  188. 
Quelioc :  60 ;  72 ;  121 ;  124  ;  126 ;  180. 
Queen's  Rangers:  107. 
Querno,  Camlllo :  1;  161. 

R. 

Race  Street :  168. 

Rawdon,  Lord :  132. 

N.  S.  132. 

Rawle,  W.  61. 

Heed,  Gen.  Joseph:  11;  14;  19;  41;  152; 
164;  165;  168;  171;  186;  189. 

W.  B.  202. 

Regiments :  Coldstream  Foot-Gnards  ; 
198:  10th  (North  Lincolnshire)  Foot; 
121;  12.0;  196:  42nd  (Royal  Highland) 
Foot;  91:  47th  (Lancashire)  Foot; 
125;  196:  Shirley's  (.Wth?)  Foot;  126: 
62nd  (Oxfordshire)  Foot;  122:  53rd 
(Shropshire)  Foot;  105:  Queen's  Ran- 
gers; 107:  Volunteers  of  Ireland;  132. 


135 ;  163. 
50;  190. 


202. 


Rhode  Island:  47. 

Richmond,  Duke  of:  ISl. 

Hittenhouso,  D.  40  ;  75  ;  199. 

'  Rl vlngton's  lying  gazette :'  191 . 

Roberdean,  Gen.  D.  16;  31 ;  44;  160. 

Roberta,  John  ;  11 ;  162  ;  164. 

Robertson,  Gen.  198. 

Robin,  Ahht-  163. 

Rob  Roy :  197. 

Rochambeau,  M.  de: 

Roman  Catholicism : 

Rome:  71;  151. 

Rosicruclus :  69. 

Roxbnry:  189. 

Rudyerd,  Lt.  Col.  H. 

Rush,  Dr.  B.  180 ;  191. 

Rutledge,  John  and  Edward :  166. 

S. 
Sabine,  Hon.  Lorenzo:  158. 
St.  Andrew;  133:  Anthony;  41 :  David; 

133:  George;  133:  Patrick;  132:  Paul; 

51;  117;  l.M. 
St.  Clair,  Gen.  A.  45 ;  188. 
St.  James's  palace:  200. 
St.  Lawrence,  the:  126. 
St.  Vincent's :  178. 
Samuel:  191. 
Saul:  191.  . 

Savage,  Marmadnke:  122. 
Savannah  :  13  ;  164  ;  165 ;  170. 
Sawbridge,  Aid.  62;  191. 
Scotch-Irish:  172. 
Scotland:  168:  167;  168. 
Scots:  154;  198;  199. 
Scott,  Sir  W.  197;  20.3. 
Sergeant,  J.  D.  179. 
Shandy,  my  cousin:  134. 
Shawe,  Meyrick :  123 ;  198. 
Shippen,  family  of :  43;  180. 
Shirley,  Sir  W.  126:  Mr,  123;  196. 
Simsbury  mines:  142. 
Sir  Ruinous  Gentry :  189. 


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8klan«r,  CortUndt:  61. 
SloiiKh,  Mktthtan:   ||)2. 
Hinlth,  Jaiiion:  2(1;  174. 

UcT.  W.  lit  ;  IM  ;  16R ;  200. 

HnuigKli*,  NHtlian:  *UI. 

HmiiKKlIng:  U:l;  iu;i ;  ll).«. 

Hinytli,  Cnpt.  J.  K.  D.  107;  10-4. 

Koi-loly  for  propagatlug  (he  Uoiipel :  200. 

Sixiom  :  A2. 

Solomon :  AS.  ' 

Solon;  fl!>. 

Spain:  98;  109. 

S)>nrk!i,  Jarpil :  202. 

Rpccliitor,  tlie:  l.M. 

Sp.Micor,  Hot.  K.  42;  M;  180;  191. 

Spriiigflpld:  l.iU;  198. 

Stamford:  142;  144. 

Stamp  Act :  94  ;  17U. 

StatohotiHoatPhlla:  177;  180;  183;  18rt; 

1S8. 
StPntoii  :  178.  ) 

Sloiilioii,  baron :  lfl2. 
Sti'Vi'iiMou,  John  Hall  :  l.'lt. 
Stirling,  Karl  of:   14;  IGA. 
Stockton,  Mr.  1,'54. 
Stony  Point:  161. 
Strada:  ISl. 
Strult:  109. 
Stnyvonant,  Mr.  194. 
Suffolk  CO.  MaoB.  189. 
SuUlTau,  Oen.  J.  46  ;  192  ;  188. 
Sully,  Duke  de:  180. 
Surry:  201. 
Swift,  l)r.  Jonathan:  193. 


Talte :  122. 

Tall  man,  Potor:  201. 

Tarlnton,  Lt.  Col.  Ilanastre:  IM. 

Taxation,  folly  of:  30. 

Tc>a,  grwn  ;  181. 

Tea  tax :  104. 

Torrick,  Dr.  Richard  :  200. 


Tharhcr,  Pr.  Jamoii:  l.VJ. 
Thank»glvlng-ilay :  .^7. 
Thomnon,  CharloH  :  ;«» ;  178. 
ThxmpHon,  liarnoy :  l;12. 

Mr.  Vii. 

(Ion.  Wm.  171. 

Thwalti'K,  (Joorgo:   122;  106. 

TowniihiMid,  Drlgadlor:  126  (carton). 

TophBt:  118. 

Torhay:  198. 

Towno,  H.  tW  ;  7rt. 

Trenton:  176;  179. 

Trumbull,  J.  l.W. 

Tryon,  Oov.  W,  l."i7. 

Tuckor,  Doan  :  77  ;  70. 

Tucker,  Bamuol :  42 ;  180. 

r. 

Unlformii:  18fl  ;  192;  196. 
VullPd  States  :  28  ;  200. 


Valtan, :  122. 

Van  KeuHHelaer  family  :  l,S,"i. 
Vaudreuil,  M.  do:   126. 
Venice:  71. 
Vernon  :  122. 
VergenneH,  M.  do;  IflS. 
VersallloK  :  28. 

Virginia :  IC>3 ;  161 ;  177 ;  178  ;  182 ;  184; 
191. 

W. 

Wale»,  Prince  of:  140. 
Walpole,  Horace:  187. 
War,  noard  of:  171. 
Wnrburton,  liinhop:  ISl. 
Warren,  (leu.  Job.  Ifl2. 
Washington:  2;  9;   12;   28;   74;    l.W; 
ItU;  17.->;  176;  185;  186;  188;  l!»l. 

William  :  IS.'i. 

Waterbury,  (leu.  D.  142;  141;  198. 
Watts,  J.  185. 


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213 


1.17. 

IM ;  200. 


Wnynn,  nnn.  A,  10;  A4  ;  ftO;  ^m. 
\Vi..I((W.)o,|'m  illiilinii:  00. 
W.ilU,  l(„li,.rt:  fl8. 
W.>lli<»,  (•„!.  inn. 
W.wloy,  \l„v,  J,  117  I 
WiiHlclioMior  ro.  N.  V. 
Wimt  Kliirlilii :   in'J. 
WoMliiiliiiilor:  200;  201. 
Wliiirli.ii,  Thi.i..  Jr.  U;  |0A. 
Willi..,  Tol.  Aiiloiiy  WiiUi.ii  : 

HIhIi„|,  ;     II);     1,17;    ,„„ 

WlilUlHil,  U.,v.  ((,;iH;   I7H. 
WliiKii.r,  J,  (1.  2o;i. 
Wllki'B,  .l„|iti:  na. 
Wlliiug,  Cupi.  Janio,.  mj. 


ini. 


WlllliiH,  Tliotim,  :  4;i;  IflO;  IRJ. 
Wllmln^l,,,,:   IIW. 
Wlln.iii,  .tHiiicin:   1.1;  iiifi  ;  ),(,( 
Wllln.|«p..()ii,  Dr.  .1.  It);  |n|.  |oj_ 
Wnlfi',  (Inn.  121;   12.1  ;    IHH. 
WcMidliiill  fiiinlly  ;  200. 
WoildlftiiclK  ;    IHI. 

Wr»x«ll,  HIr  N.  lOfl. 


Y. 

Ymikmi  fttrmn  ;  l.tn  ;  ms, 
YhIiih,  Uciliorl  :  4;i ;   I  (so, 
Vfillow-wIgM;   20;  172. 
York  flo.  I'ouii.  J72;  174. 


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